Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Never say more than is necessary.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Love understands all languages.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Only the educated are free.
They can because they think they can.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Success is the child of audacity.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
You must motivate yourself every day.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
After your jump, the net appears.