The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
