For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
A kind word is like a spring day.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Old age is no place for sissies.
True strength lies in gentleness.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
