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You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.
/Thich Nhat Hanh
Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.
Mindfulness helps you to touch the wonders of life for self-nourishment and healing.
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
Without fear, we are able to see more clearly our connections to others. Without fear, we have more room for understanding and compassion. Without fear, we are truly free.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
/Buddha
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.
Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
He is able who thinks he is able.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is the eternal rule.
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.
Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
How easy it is to see your brother’s faults, How hard it is to face your own.
In every trial Let understanding fight for you.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.
Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.
/Unknown
Every happy couple has a breakup in their past.
The heart was made to be broken.
/Oscar Wilde
A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.
No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you'll never get through it without your friends.
I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you.
/Toto
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Love is unconditional, relationships are not.
/Grant Gudmundson
I'm going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me I'm going to smile.
I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
/Socrates
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
/Kahlil Gibran
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
/Gilda Radner
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
/Tony Robbins
We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
/Joseph Campbell
If you don't like being a doormat then get off the floor.
/Al Anon
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.
/Anais Nin
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself.
/Sloane Crosley
When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits.
/Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.
/Donna Lynn Hope
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.
/Andy Warhol
The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up… A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time… Life is about experiencing opposites isn't it?
/Laurel House
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
/Guy Finley
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
/Jocelyn Soriano
Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.
/Osayi Osar-Emokpae
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye.
/Steve Maraboli
If someone doesn't care about losing you: Move on. There are thousands of people that will die and kill to not lose you.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
/Paulo Coelho
I miss your smile... but I miss mine more.
And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
/Warsan Shire
Never run for a bus, train, or man. When one leaves another arrives.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
/Eleanor Roosevelt
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
/Deborah Reber
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us
/Alexander Graham Bell
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
/Christopher Columbus
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
/Albert Einstein
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
/Dave Mustaine
I don't miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
/Haruki Murakami
I'm going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me - I'm going to smile.
/Lone Star
The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.
/Tigress Luv
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
/Golda Meir
You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
/Vince Lombardi
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
/Margaret Thatcher
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
/John R. Wooden
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
/Washington Irving
Fortune sides with him who dares.
/Virgil
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
/Herman Melville
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
/Theodore N. Vail
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
/Booker T. Washington
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
/Dale Carnegie
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
/Anatole France
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
/Wayne Dyer
Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
/ John C. Maxwell
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
/Mike Gafka
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
/George Lorimer
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
/Francis Chan
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
/Ella Wheeler Wilcox
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
/Jim Ryun
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
/Michael Jordan
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
/Diane Ackerman
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
/George Bernard Shaw
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
/Jane Smiley
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
/Denis Watiley
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
/Napoleon Hill
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.
/Jeff Olson
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
/Steve Jobs
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
/T. Harv Eker
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
/Robert Kiyosaki
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.
/Gurbaksh Chahal
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
/ Jim Rohn
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
/Bruce Lee
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
/Mark Twain
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
/Audre Lorde
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
/Mark Caine
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
/Henry Kravis
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
/Bill Gates
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
/Maya Angelou
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
/Ralph Nader
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
/Colin R. Davis
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
/Martha Stewart
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
/Guy Kawasaki
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
/Vidal Sassoon
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
/Earl Nightingale
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
/Pablo Picasso
You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.
/Philippos
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
/Michael John Bobak
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
/Thomas J. Watson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
/Robert Collier
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
/Napolean Hill
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
/Thomas Jefferson
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
/Dr. APJ Kalam
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
/Ray Goforth
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
You can do anything, but not everything.
Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem.
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
/Lolly Daskal
What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
/Nathaniel Hawthorne
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
/John D. Rockefeller
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
/Bruce Feirstein
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
If you're going through hell keep going.
/Winston Churchill
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
/Henry Ford
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
/David Brinkley
If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents - start charging for it.
/Kim Garst
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
/Thomas A. Edison
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Opportunities don't happen, you create them.
/Chris Grosser
Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.
/Vaibhav Shah
Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.
/Proverb
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
/Walt Disney
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
/Swami Vivekananda
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.
/Jim Rohn
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
/John Wooden
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson
It always seems impossible until it's done.
/Nelson Mandela
There is no education like adversity.
/Benjamin Disraeli
Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
/Samuel Beckett
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
/Bono
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
/Truman Capote
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
/Charles R. Swindoll
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
/Les Brown
The best is yet to be.
/Robert Browning
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
/Mario Fernandez
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
/Helen Keller