Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The deepest words _x000D_ of the wise man teach us _x000D_ the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows _x000D_ or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Believe nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ No matter where you read it,_x000D_ _x000D_ Or who has said it,_x000D_ _x000D_ Not even if I have said it,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless it agrees with your own reason_x000D_ _x000D_ And your own common sense.
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
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