- Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
- The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
- An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
- Sometimes it’s better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
- Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
- Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.
- Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world.
- If you know something hurtful and not true, don’t say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don’t say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don’t say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.
- Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
- Want what you have and you will always get what you want.
- Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.
- Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
- Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
- Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, “If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?” “Why, it stays with me, of course,” the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, “And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse,” he said. “I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you.”
- When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
- Your actions are your only true belongings.
- The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you’re the one who gets burned.
- We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
- Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
- Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
- Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
- Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
- Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
- Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.
- Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
- If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.
- If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
- True love is born from understanding.
- The fool says, “These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money.” In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
- How easy it is to see your brother’s faults, How hard it is to face your own.
- Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
- Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
- True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.
- The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
- Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
- In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
- Do not speak – unless it improves on silence.
- 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.
- For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
- Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
- Nothing is forever except change.