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One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.
You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born
If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.
It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.
In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.
Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.