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Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.
Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.
Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.
You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.
Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.
Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.
There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.
The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?
It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.
If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.
We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
A woman needs to be told she is beautiful. She needs to be told she is valued. She needs to be told she is worthwhile.
May we realize how close to us He is willing to come, how far He is willing to go to help us and how much He loves us.
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.
A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.
If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.