About You Respecting Others, You Respecting Yourself, Others Respecting You... And about Being Humble
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching )
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Heschel
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph Sockman
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Edgar Watson Howe
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
Men are respectable only as they respect
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
When To Sell Shares Or A General Rule for Everything You Undertake
This quote from an American business tycoon ...
Fortunes have been made by those selling too early.
... is very similar to this quote from the Tao Te Ching
Better stop short than fill to the brim.
Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.
The Unexpected
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
On Mastery
We live in a "quick-fix" society. We want everything in a flash. ... The path of mastery rises above the world of the "quick-fix." Mastery of your mind, body and character, just like mastery of any other activity, requires discipline, persistence and hard work. But the results will change every element of your life and you will undersand that there truly is no more noble cause than strenghtening yourself.
Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma
The Importance of Good Food
You are what you eat. By transforming your diet, you can dramatically reshape your body, moods, energy levels and overall vitality.
Robin Sharma
The "sattivic" or pure diet is one based on living foods - those created by the natural interaction of the sun, air, soil and water. The "sattivic" diet emphasizes fruits (and their fresh juices), vegetables and grains.
Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma
The "sattivic" or pure diet is one based on living foods - those created by the natural interaction of the sun, air, soil and water. The "sattivic" diet emphasizes fruits (and their fresh juices), vegetables and grains.
Robin Sharma
Euripides on Happiness
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Account no man happy till he dies.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at it's sails.
Joy Quotes - Continued: Joy is a Choice
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
Akhenaton
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatever you are doing, not for the result, but for the act itself.
Osho
My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Jenna Elfman
Joy and sorrow are inseparable - together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde
Don't move the way fear makes you move.Move the way love makes you move.Move the way joy makes you move.
Osho
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John Rockefeller
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
Osho
The first and most important step,is intention: making the decision to be happy.
James Baraz
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos
Indeed, there is ample evidence that a joy-filled workplace improves financial performance.
Dennis Bakke
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Akhenaton
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatever you are doing, not for the result, but for the act itself.
Osho
My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Jenna Elfman
Joy and sorrow are inseparable - together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde
Don't move the way fear makes you move.Move the way love makes you move.Move the way joy makes you move.
Osho
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John Rockefeller
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
Osho
The first and most important step,is intention: making the decision to be happy.
James Baraz
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos
Indeed, there is ample evidence that a joy-filled workplace improves financial performance.
Dennis Bakke
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Prayer vs. Meditation
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
Diana Robinson
Diana Robinson
Less Is More
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours. Proverb (Sweden)
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
From the Prayer of Saint Francis
Priest or Psychiatrist, and the Meaning of Life
More and more, a psychiatrist is approached today by patients who confront him with human problems rather than neurotic symptoms. Some of the people who nowadays call on a psychiatrist would have seen a pastor, priest or rabbi in former days. Now they often refuse to be handed over to a clergyman and instead confront the doctor with questions such as, "What is the meaning of my life?"
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl
Cosmic Energy
'Kundalini' = Vital force of cosmic energy embodied in everyone, and pictured as a coiled serpent at the base of the spine.
God and Philosophy
When you believe in God, and seriously philosophize with others about God, there is the possibility that, in the course of a conversation, you will start thinking differently of Him, or even completely (and temporarily) give up the idea of God.
If you do not a priori accept this possibility, then you are as a child that always listens to its farther, and never to somebody else. Such a child is allowed to play, but nobody expects that this child would practice philosophy.
L.J.C. Parsam
If you do not a priori accept this possibility, then you are as a child that always listens to its farther, and never to somebody else. Such a child is allowed to play, but nobody expects that this child would practice philosophy.
L.J.C. Parsam
Don’t Give Up Now
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harrier Stowe
Harrier Stowe
Quotes about Books and Reading
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Leo Tolstoy
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway
Robertson Davies
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Leo Tolstoy
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway
Addiction Quotes
By degrees a person should become free of unwholesome and unnatural habits; similarly, one should try to develop wholesome natural habits. The way of doing this is to replace the unnatural with the natural. If withdrawal is gradual, addiction does not reappear; wholesome habits, gradually acquired, become firmly implanted.
Charaka Samhita
Charaka Samhita
Reality Quotes
What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished real world but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data - a model that is constructed so that it is useful for dealing with the real world.
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Existence - And How We Perceive It
We don't exist in the way in which we think we have understood ourselves.
Jan Haasbroek
Jan Haasbroek
Will Power
There is not great talent without great will power.
Honoré de Balzac
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
The Richest Man in Babylon
, George Clason
Proverbs
Where there's a will, there's a way.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Honoré de Balzac
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
The Richest Man in Babylon
, George ClasonProverbs
Where there's a will, there's a way.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Self Control Quotes
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova
You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.
Carrie Latet
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Norman Vincent Peale
Self control goes in two directions - to stop yourself from doing something, and to oblige yourself to do something, e.g. to have courage...
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.
Carrie Latet
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Norman Vincent Peale
Self control goes in two directions - to stop yourself from doing something, and to oblige yourself to do something, e.g. to have courage...
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova
Solitude
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
Dalai Lama - Inner Peace and Ultimate Truth
Quotes from the 14th Dalai Lama
World peace begins with inner peace.
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
I feel for a successful and happy life much of it depends on our mental outlook. The money, power or even health, I think is secondary. If mental state is calm, at peace, then you really enjoy your life.
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
World peace begins with inner peace.
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
I feel for a successful and happy life much of it depends on our mental outlook. The money, power or even health, I think is secondary. If mental state is calm, at peace, then you really enjoy your life.
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
Life without Disturbance, Soldiers of Fate
But those occupied with the prognostication of the future and the truth, by gaining a soul free and not enslaved, think slightly of fortune, and do not obstinately persist in hope, and do not fear death, but spend their lives without disturbance by training the soul ahead of time to be confident, and neither rejoice excessively in the case of good nor are depressed in the case of foul, and are content with what is present. And those who are not in love with the impossible carry along that which ordained, and being estranged from all pleasure or flattery, they are established as soldiers of fate.
Vettius Valens
Vettius Valens