When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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