Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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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.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.
