Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them.
“A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day”. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To change and to change for the better are two different things.” – German proverb
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” – Galileo Galilei
The interpretation of a thing can kill the experience of it.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got” – NLP adage
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life. – Osho
” It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -not people, to focus your energies on answers -not excuses.”
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am grateful to those teachers.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. - Albert Camus
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects the wind; the realist adjusts the sails
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it - Albert Einstein
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand - Confucius
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
“It’s easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.” – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (1902-1983)
“Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.” – B.C. Forbes, Scottish journalist (1880-1954)
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”-Will Rogers
There are two kinds of people in one’s life: People whom one keeps waiting, and the people for whom one waits.” – S.N. Behrman, American author and dramatist (1893-1973)
“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.” – Abraham Maslow
“Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect”
“People don’t change when you tell them that there is a better option. They change when they realize that there is NO Other option.”
“What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.”
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
“We are like silkworms; we make the thread out of our own substance and spin the cocoon, and in course of time are imprisoned inside. But this is not for ever. In that cocoon we shall develop spiritual realisation, and like the butterfly come out free” – Swami Vivekananda
“Once you decide to do something, the universe conspires to help you. There are a lot of people who are really talented, but I can see they’re not going to make it because they don’t work hard enough.” – Gerard Butler
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently” – Friedrich Nietzsche
