“A person is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.”
Eric Hoffer
Quotes
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
“In order for the forest to be green, each tree must be green.”
Susan Pearce, OM-Less?: An Irreverent Guide to Knowing Grace (p. 140).
What are riches – grandeur – health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; – and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair – to the anguish of an afflicted one!
Ann Radcliffe
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Charlotte Clemensen Taylor
“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.”
Jack Kornfield, Page 28 of Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
If love can fade, then so can pain.
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Who are you when all the things that feed your ego fall away?
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life’s challenges with grace and ease.
What you love you empower
What you fear you empower
What you empower you attract
If a moment of anger can be extremely destructive, it is equally true that a moment of heartfelt love or compassion can be tremendously constructive.
-Geshe Sonam Rinchen, How Karma Works
Everything exists in dependence on other factors and is thus free from the two extremes: the extreme of reified objective existence and the extreme of nonexistance.
-Geshe Sonam Rinchen, How Karma Works
“The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.”
– Jennifer Worth
Spiritual knowledge is fresh
In the Buddhist lineage, knowledge is not handed down like an antique. One teacher experiences the truth of the teachings and hands it down as an inspiration to his students. That inspiration wakens the student who passes it on further. The teachings are seen as always up to date, they are not thought of as “ancient wisdom”.
It is like a recipe for bread. Each baker must apply his general knowledge of how to bake bread, but each time it is cooked completely fresh.
Jane Hope and Borin Van Loon
Introducing Buddha: A graphic guide
How do we come to think of things, rather than of processes in this absolute flux? By shutting our eyes to the successive events. It is an artificial attitude that makes sections in the stream of
change and calls them things. When we shall know the truth of things, we shall realize how absurd it is for us to worship isolated products of the incessant series of transformations as though they were eternal and real. Life isno thing or state of a thing, but a continuous movement or change.
– Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ”
― U. G. Krishnamurti
Every flower must grow through dirt.
Laurie Jean Sennott
Fate and will together run
Twofold is the life we live in
Fate and will together run
Two wheels bear life’s chariot onward
Will it move on only one?
-Hitopadesa
It is very easy to defeat someone but…
It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.
APJ Abdul Kalam
The more relaxed you are the better you…
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
Bill Murray
Until one is committed there is hesitancy the…
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
William Hutchinson Murray
What is my life if I am no…
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only by joy and sorrow does a person…
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find the great thing in this world…
I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already…
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself if you can…
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I accept you as you are I…
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we treat man as he is we…
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe today that my conduct is in…
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.
Adolf Hitler
He who would live must fight He who…
He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Adolf Hitler
Don’t worry that your life is turning upside…
Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
Rumi
As in everything nature is the best instructor
As in everything, nature is the best instructor.
Adolf Hitler
The art of reading consists in remembering the…
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
Adolf Hitler
Reading is not an end to itself but…
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
Adolf Hitler
I do not see why man should not…
I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature.
Adolf Hitler
Do not compare yourself to others If you…
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Adolf Hitler
Be grateful for what you have and stop…
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
Zig Ziglar
Words build bridges into unexplored regions Adolf Hitler
Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
Adolf Hitler
Some women choose to follow men and some…
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.
Lady Gaga
Live your beliefs and you can turn the…
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
When your values are clear to you making…
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
Roy E. Disney
A husband is tossing and turning in bed…
A husband is tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep and this does not let his wife fall asleep.
She asks him what’s wrong.
He responds, “I owe money to our neighbor, the loan is due tomorrow but I can’t pay it”.
She picks up the phone and calls their neighbor, “Sorry to bother you so late but my husband can’t pay that loan back tomorrow” and hangs up.
Then she turns to her husband, “There, I fixed it. You can go to sleep in peace now, let the neighbor stay awake tossing and turning in his bed”
The moral of the story is that you need to fight fire with fire: let your feelings be known.
You will either get a positive response and your life can become better; or you will get a definitive “No” and you can start the healing process.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Nothing will work unless you do
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
You must learn to be still in the…
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up…
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Miracles happen everyday change your perception of what…
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you,
Jon Bon Jovi
If your actions inspire others to dream more…
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Calmness is the cradle of power
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland