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Famous Quotes & Sayings“ They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ” “ Acts of virtue emerge from deep within, from an inner sanctuary of silence from which inspiration flows. Every action has its seed in a thought and every thought is a creation of the thinker, the soul. I choose what thoughts I want to create and as is my thinking so are my actions and also my experience in life. Going within, I touch the stillness and pure love that lie at the core of my being and every thought that I create is of benefit to myself and of benefit to humanity. ” “ From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ” “ Dont color everything with black and white, think more grayish. ” “ Opportunities come by creation, not by chance. ” “ A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300,000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself. ” “ An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ” “ All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love. ” “ It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” “ Those who have faith need no explanation. For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible. ” “ Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. ” “ If I recognise that whatever is happening in the great drama of life is beneficial, then my courage will never fail. ” “ A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. ” “ Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ” “ To remain constantly happy and to distribute happiness is the greatest honour. ” “ People do not make wars; governments do. ” “ Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ” “ Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. ” “ If you put your hope in psychology, you are bound for a life of pain. Put it in creativity... hanging out with your creator. ” “ Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. Your virginity is eternal. You cannot lose it, there is no way to lose it. You can only forget about it or you can remember it. If you forget about it, you live in confusion. If you remember about it, all is clear. ” “ True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist ” “ History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. ” “ Sending good wishes to others acts like sunlight, filtering into the dark corners of their mind and lightening their burden. ” “ You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. ” “ But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ” “ Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ” “ For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. ” “ Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ” “ The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. ” “ Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy. ” “ A little pleases a poor man ” “ According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ” “ Forget that which has passed, learn a lesson from the past and always remain cautious in the future. ” “ Of all the gifts of a place by the Sea, perhaps the greatest is the gift of Soul. ” “ Co-operation comes when there is both love for the task and trust in the special part each person plays. ” “ Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are ” “ You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! ” “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ” “ A wonderful gift is to shine like a flawless diamond. ” “ Your inner strength is revealed by your gentle nature and tender heart. ” “ Live for something rather than die for nothing. ” “ God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ” “ Too bad you can't get a voodoo globe and make the world spin around really fast and freak everyone out. ” “ Hope is a waking dream. ” “ The secret of finding deep fulfilment lies in serving others. The boss who looks after his staff and customers as he would his own family is a successful boss and a happy human being. ” “ You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ” “ I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. ” “ Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger. Not lifting weights doesn't kill me. Therefore not lifting weights makes me stronger. ” “ It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ” “ Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ” “ Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. ” “ He not busy being born is busy dying. ” “ No act of kindness is ever wasted. ” “ Under the hardest shell, is a person who wants to be appreciated and loved. ” “ Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. ” “ I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ” “ There is nothing more inevitable than the greying of hair and the crinkling of skin. Resisting it is like trying to hold back the tide of the ocean. Accepting it is the way into a graceful life and the possibility of true Leisure! Our lives are mostly without leisure as we succumb to the marketing men and their determination to convince us that the tide can be beaten back, at the very least, kept at bay. As a consequence we count the greys and measure the length and depth of the wrinkles. We spend our time and attention on the surface of our forms, and create the habits of anxiety and worry as they inevitably deteriorate. But when we truly know ourselves as spirit within the form, all those subtle tensions are dissolved. We never age, never grow old, never die - only our bodies do. Knowing ourselves as we truly are is the doorway to freedom and to the graceful acceptance that we are destined to inhabit and play many roles in many bodies. Is that not both a liberating and a relaxing insight? If you play with it, explore it for truth, meditate on it, seriously give it 'house room' in your head, you may actually experience yourself as a free spirit. And when you do you will know true relaxation. ” “ I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ” “ Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. ” “ The bondage of the thoughts of the mind do not allow the experience of internal happiness. To be tied in the bondage of waste thoughts, jealousy and thoughts of carelessness and laziness are the bondages of the mind. Therefore become free from this subtle bondage. ” “ We are what we think. All that we are arises with your thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ” “ A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ” “ You are not born a leader, you become one. ” “ Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. ” “ Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ” “ The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise. Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals, have come to a completion.... Certainly, to be full of spring yourself is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves. That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises, the autumn dew starts evaporating.... This temporary beauty cannot be compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being. Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to shower on you. This is spiritual spring. ” “ If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ” “ Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ” “ I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. ” “ In my opinion, nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs ” “ A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ” “ "Wow...thats beautiful!" Is either a cry or a thought when faced with the mountain sunset, a spectacular view or a well formed man or woman. But where is the beauty, where is the appreciation of beauty, where is the ability to discern beauty? It is within our own consciousness. For the essence of who and what we are is beauty itself. The essence of beauty is not found in the body, a face or a mountain - they only stir the essence of beauty within our own spirit. And that beauty is not only something we taste within ourselves, but it emerges in our character as virtue, and in our life as care. For what is virtue, but love in action. The next time you say, "Thats beautiful!" know that you speak of yourself, and it is you who are beautiful. Always were, always will be. ” “ Only when you are standing on the foundation of your values are you able to maintain your truth. ” “ Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games. ” “ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ” “ Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ” “ Learning is finding out what you already know. ” “ Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ” “ A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ” “ You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ” “ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. ” “ The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. ” “ Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ” “ Man is a piece of the universe made alive ” “ Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness lies in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ” “ Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ” “ Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness. And without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness. And without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate. ” “ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ” “ By serving others you automatically serve yourself. ” “ We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. ” “ There is no difference between the dream and the waking state except that the dream is short and the waking long. ” “ Youth is wasted on the young. ” “ Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ” “ Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of ” “ Your happy and peaceful nature unlocks the door to success, and attracts the blessings and respect of all souls. ” “ It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. ” “ Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself. ” “ Meditation is a kind of medicine - its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation; then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully, alert, joyously, unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful..... After a long walk, you sit under a tree and the breeze comes and cools you. Each moment one has to be at ease with oneself - not trying to improve, not cultivating anything, not practicing anything. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Talking or silent, moving, unmoving, the essence is at ease. The essence is at ease: that is the key word. The essence is at ease: that is the key statement. Do whatsoever you are doing, but at the deepest core remain at ease, cool, calm, centered. ” “ Everything that comes to us, comes to pass or, more accurately, for us to pass on. Not just the money in our pocket, but wisdom, objects, ideas, even opportunities, all come to us, so that, at the right moment, we can pass them on. This is called flow. Being in the flow means being aware that the river of life is flowing to us at every moment. Being in the flow means accepting whatever comes and putting it to good use, before passing it on. Going with the flow means allowing whatever comes to move on freely, without holding on in any way. If we do not pass on, we are trying to block the flow, and thats when we feel pressure in our life. Pressure is always self-inflicted. Every time you feel 'under pressure' look at what you need to release and to pass on to someone else. Once you do you can ...relax...again. ” “ To be alone in the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you. ” |
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