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World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Art of Happiness
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they�re not on your road doesn�t mean they�ve gotten lost.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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