Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
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.
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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
