Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe the best of everybody.
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual.
The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.
If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.
Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.
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