You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
Interpretation
Honor is an intrinsic quality that cannot be taken from you by others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and honor, suggesting that external circumstances, such as losing material possessions or employment, do not define one's true worth. It reminds us that while we may face adversity at the hands of others, our sense of honor and dignity remains within us and is ultimately our own to uphold.
In practice
During a speech on character development at a local school.
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.
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