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I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.
Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.
You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction
I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.