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Famous Quotes & Sayings“ The whole world steps aside for the one who knows where they are going. ” “ He that travels much knows much. ” “ Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ” “ Turn to God and look for God in your own heart. Realize that this is the real you, the spark of divinity that is everything. ” “ I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. ” “ To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. ” “ If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? ” “ What is art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. ” “ Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ” “ Ignorance makes us believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches us that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance. What we see today is not the fruit of chance but the fruit of seeds planted in the past. Seeds of peace planted now will create a life of peace in the future. ” “ There are three ingredients for a long and healthy life: live with attention but without worry; use time in a worthwhile way; keep your thoughts pure, positive and filled with strength. ” “ Youth has no age ” “ There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. ” “ Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. ” “ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ” “ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation ” “ When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ” “ Not to cause anyone sorrow even in your thoughts is complete non-violence. ” “ Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being. ” “ After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ” “ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” “ It is extroversion that wastes our energy and makes us feel weak. In a state of introversion we think less and speak less. We then have the power to put into action whatever we think and whatever we need to do. ” “ You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves. ” “ Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ” “ It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ” “ Silence has to be love-filled. Love actually inspires and moves all things towards their original freedom and happiness. ” “ When I start the day with a moment of solitude and contemplation, even the most crowded schedule runs more smoothly. ” “ What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. ” “ Find that (awareness) on which all the rest are imposed and you then remain as the pure Self (your inner awareness). ” “ To find a buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his or her nature is a buddha. If you don’t see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings result in good karma. Reciting sutras results in good memory. Keeping precepts results in a good rebirth. And making offerings results in future blessings. But no buddha. ” “ 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. ” “ A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ” “ The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it. ” “ What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness ” “ Use whatever talent you have for the service of others and watch it grow and grow. ” “ Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. ” “ Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. ” “ Do not look for peace outside for it lies within the soul. ” “ We all find occasion to reject and resist another person. We all like to put up a fight against anything we dislike on the evening news as we spectate the world. But we forget that when we decide we will resist something or somebody, either mentally or physically, we only empower the object of our resistance, either in reality or in our own minds. If you want to enjoy the ability to influence, always start with acceptance. If you want to disarm another begin with acceptance. If you want to encourage and empower another to change, start with acceptance. Don't make it conditional. Otherwise it's just resistance disguised as acceptance, and you are still trying to control them. And we can all smell a controller...can't you? ” “ It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. ” “ It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. ” “ Acceptance gives me the experience of being like an angel: never judging,never criticizing and never worrying. ” “ "No one is to blame" is an aspect of humility that enables everyone to move forward. ” “ If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake. ” “ Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ” “ There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK... You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it... Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like. ” “ The less I think about doing something and the faster I just get on with it, the fewer problems I cause myself. Good planning is always helpful, but time spent fretting and procrastinating is a major drain on my energy ” “ To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly ” “ You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. ” “ Let me appreciate how unique I am and what a special role I play. ” “ Amazing as it may seem, every event, every scene has some significance. Nothing is without meaning. Life is like a book - each day a new page, each interaction a new paragraph. We read books to learn, so we may grow and become more complete and more effective as we play this game called life. Can you read the book of your life, can you study the scenes of your day, in such a way that you may learn and grow? To get started, take time out to reflect, review and realise something new at least once a day - more often if you can. What was really going on there? What was I feeling at the time? Why? If you do this retrospective processing, eventually you will be able to read each scene with great clarity as it happens. That's when the reader becomes the writer, and life becomes truly a creative adventure, where we are able to see and appreciate the significance and meaning within every scene, and know exactly how to respond. ” “ If I have no expectations of others, I remain uninfluenced by their behaviour towards me and leave them free to be themselves. ” “ A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ” “ The happiest of people dont necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. ” “ There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. ” “ The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ” “ He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ” “ By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ” “ He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. ” “ If you cannot explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough ” “ Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ” “ Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will ” “ The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you. ” “ When walking - walk. When sitting - sit. But don't wobble! ” “ No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ” “ Do not judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins ” “ To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected in dewdrops. Shaken from a crane's bill. ” “ 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. ” “ Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens ” “ All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: "Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust." ” “ Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will. ” “ In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. ” “ Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. ” “ Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. ” “ The fruits of patience are always sweet - mangoes cannot be grown by hurrying. ” “ To have everything is to possess nothing. ” “ Positive thoughts generate power, negative ones waste it. ” “ You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" ” “ There is nothing more certain than that the world will continue to change. Accepting and not resisting this, is the first and most important inner skill in this frenetically changing, modern world. Life tests us every day to see how well we have developed this ability. Equally, there is nothing more real than the inner space within each of us that never ever changes. We may change our thoughts, our feelings, even our sense of who we are, but we fail to visit the unchanging centre of our own self. The ability to be in this inner space, where our peace is found, when all around would prefer chaos and crisis, is the deepest spiritual change skill. It is the eye of the storm, it is the oasis in the desert, it is the place where peace is power. Call in today. You'll be surprised how much it can influence and change everything and everyone around you! ” “ The wise don't strive to arrive. ” “ I can only say that I have had a wonderful life. ” “ The changes you get in life are the changes you can see. Don't look at doors that just closed, look the ons that open. ” “ A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ” “ Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world? ” “ God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ” “ It is a wise father that knows his own child. ” “ He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. ” “ There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ” “ Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. ” “ Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ” “ The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. ” “ How can you think and hit at the same time? ” “ In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. ” “ The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being. ” “ In the ocean of silence you may discover your eternal treasures of peace, love and happiness. In silence, you can let bad feelings and past sorrows dissolve. In silence you can hear the whisper of God saying "Come child and rest with Me. You are a peaceful soul. ” “ The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. ” “ Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. ” “ I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ” “ The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ” “ I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity. ” |
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