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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama
Spend some time alone every day.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. --Abraham Lincoln
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
Everyone is ignorant,
only on different subjects.
--Will Rogers
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
(1859-1915, American Author, Publisher)
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret.
Leo Buscaglia
(American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author)
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Bill Beattie
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. Weston H. Agor
Dare to...
Ask for what you want.
Believe in yourself.
Change your mind.
Do what you love.
Enjoy each and every day.
Follow your hearts desire.
Give more than you receive.
Have a sense of humor.
Insist on being yourself.
Join in more.
Kiss and make up.
Love and be loved.
Make new friends.
Nurture your spirit.
Overcome adversity.
Play more.
Question conformity.
Reach for the stars.
Speak your truth.
Take personal responsibility.
Understand more, judge less.
Volunteer your time.
Walk through fear.
Xperience the moment.
Yearn for grace.
be Zestful
Meiji Stewart
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
--Charles Franklin Kettering
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work...
the more I have of it
Thomas Jefferson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
--Colin Wilson
Whether You Think You Can or Can't, You're Right.
-- Henry Ford
There's little success where there's little laughter. Andrew Carnegie
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. -- Jack Penn
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
--Jawaharial Nehru
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is liking what you get.
- H. Jackson Brown
The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. -- Jonathan Winters
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
-- Harvey Mackay
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
-- Shirley Maclaine
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
--Henry Van Dyke
A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
People are like teabags. You'll never know how strong they are until they're in hot water. --- Rita Mae Brown, author
The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
~ Will Rogers
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-- Carl Bard
Watch your thoughts; they become words,
Watch your words; they become actions,
Watch your actions; they become habits,
Watch your habits; they become character,
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. --Frank Outlaw
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
- Cadet maxim
U.S. Military Academy, West Point
We are what we repeatedly do, excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.
-- Aristotle
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
--Sam Leveneson
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An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Proverbs 24:26
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
Aristotle
Walter Anderson
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.�?/FONT>
-- Ken Blanchard
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.�?/FONT>
-- Ken Blanchard
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.�?/FONT> William Shakespeare quotes
“If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to�?/FONT>
Proverb quotes
"A promise made is a debt unpaid."
�?Robert W. Service, American poet (1874-1958), in "The Cremation of Sam McGee," 1907
"Honesty isn’t a policy at all; it’s a state of mind or it isn’t honesty."
�?Eugene L’Hote, philosopher
"Frankness invites frankness."
�?Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, public philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.�?nbsp;
�?Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll icon (1935-1977)
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not
believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the
teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings �?that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
�?Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), Indian philosopher and founder of Buddhism (c. 563-c. 483 B.C.)
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.�?
�?A.E. Housman, British poet and scholar (1859-1936)
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The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are. - Desiderius Erasmus
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done. - Elbert Hubbard
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - English Proverb
The whole secret of a succesful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. - Henry Ford
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. -Gandhi
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. Leo Buscaglia
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein
Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire. -Wayne Dyer "The Secrets to Manifesting your Destiny"
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives. -Albert Einstein
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. -Robert H. Schuller
The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. - Carl Sagan , Broca's Brain
Love What You Do. Do What You Love. -Wayne Dyer...Secrets to Manifesting Your Destiny
It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it. "Taking responsibility for change" - W. Mitchell from the book "It's not what happens to you. It's what you do about it."
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You may not think that the world
needs you, but it does. For you are
unique, like no one who has ever
been before or will come after. No
one can speak with your voice, say
your piece, smile your smile, or
shine your light. No one can take
your place, for it is yours alone to
fill. If you are not there to shine
your light who knows how many
travelers will lose their way as
they try to pass by your empty
place in the darkness.
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Alot of what we see depends on what we are looking for.. Author Unknown |
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Whenever you want change in the outer world, the inner world must change first. Instead of asking others to change, change self first. Janet Dian |
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You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.. Henry David Thoreau
A person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.
Tara Grady
Those who look for beauty, find it.
Unknown
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.
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“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.�?BR>
Dale Carnegie
“Seek the best in everyone that you meet. Seek the worst when dealing with yourself.�?
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"In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective."�?
Dalai Lama
“A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view�?
Alfred Adler
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.�?
Edward de Bono
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual�?
Phyllis Diller
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.�?
Bernard M. Baruch
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself�?
James Russell Lowell
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like�?
Margaret Mead
“Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.�? Unknown
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity�?
Dale Carnegie
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.�?
Carl Gustav Jung
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Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.
Hafsat Abiola
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
- From the Christmas Message 2001 of HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
Elise Boulding
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words,
Is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
(Carl) Frederick Buechner
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
(Carl) Frederick Buechner
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.
Chinese Proverb
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But, in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food we eat....So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.
Peter Coyote
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano de Crescenzo
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
Dorothy Day
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
Dorothy Day
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
Dhammapada
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.
Barbara Deming
Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.
Jack DuVall
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
St. Francis de Sales
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
Erich Fromm
I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
We must be the change we wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look.
From a letter written by Fra Giovanni, 1513
Respectful dialogue, in the interest of searching for more complete truth, is considerably more productive than arguing for the purity of position.
Gerard Vanderhaar
World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.
Kathleen Vande Kieft
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
All works of love are works of peace.
Mother Teresa
Fear less, hope more,
Whine less, breathe more,
Talk less, say more,
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.
Swedish proverb
Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do you want long life and happiness? Strive for peace with all your heart.
Psalm 34:12,14
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Peace Pilgrim
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Maya Angelou
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love.
Annamalai Swami
In the struggle rewards are few. In the fact, I know of only two, loving friends and living dreams. These rewards are not so few it seems.
Anonymous
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
Anonymous
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Arias
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 Hope everyone enjoys these like I do and can take something from them..I find them so inspiring myself! Hugs.. |
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