There is no enemy outside our mind. The real enemies live inside us: anger, ego, greed and hatred.
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To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
When elephants fight, ants get killed.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
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.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
