The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
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If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.
I never encounter anything except my responsibility.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.