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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.
Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
It's our faith that activates the power of God.
You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.
Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
All problems are illusions of the mind.
Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
What you keep before your eyes will affect you.
Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.
All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.
The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.
Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!