Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
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No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
