Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
