"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion. But the sky knows the reasons and patterns behind all clouds. And you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
"Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable."
"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you do. We are all learners, doers and teachers."
The grass is always greener 'till you get to the other side.....
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. Be happy with what you have while working for what you want. Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others. Live your life as an exclamation, not as an explanation. Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Stand up for your high principles even if you have to stand alone. To get out of the shadows of others, you must find your own light. Never resist a generous impulse. Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically or spiritually.
"Everyone is afraid." You're afraid, I'm afraid, everyone you meet is afraid in some way, often in many ways. As Mark Twain said, "Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." The brave person is the person who acts in spite of his or her fear, who faces the fear, feels the fear and moves forward regardless.
"Fears diminish and lose their power over you as you confront them and move toward them; conversely, every time you back away from a fear situation, the fear grows and becomes more powerful."
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.
All the joy the world contains is through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
"Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the music"
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
As a single slab of rock won't bulge in the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise.
When sitting quietly reflect on our own faults. When talking with friends do not talk about the rights or wrongs of others.
Loving kindness is giving others happiness. Compassion is removing other's bitterness. Joy is freeing others from suffering.
When giving to others, do not linger on thoughts of: I am giving, what was given, or you have received.
Until he has universal love for all beings, man will not find peace.
He who receives kindness should never forget it, but he who performs it should never remember it.
Good fortune comes from selflessness. Misfortune comes from selfishness.
Whatever joy there is in the world all arises from desiring others to be happy. Whatever suffering there is in the world all arises from desiring myself to be happy.
