We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Through discipline comes freedom.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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