Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If we recognise that all inner and outer effects or results in our lives have causes which can be found within ourselves, then we understand karma or the law of sowing and reaping. If we are aware that we have just awoken to this law, and that we are consciously live with this law in our awareness we will also be aware that we were asleep to this law before - perhaps for a long time, possibly many births. It is therefore highly likely we tried to break the law. What we did not know was we cannot break this law. We cannot take anything without having to pay it back at some future stage. We may receive but we may not take - there is a difference. If we have taken then we must payback. Any form of pain or discomfort - mental, emotional or physical - means it is payback time. The universal debt collector has come to knock on our door. Accounts are being settled. If you can regard all pain, from a bump on the head to an emotional crisis, as the settling of a debt, you will be using the oldest wisdom to respond to life in the most enlightened way. The destination, once all accounts are settled, and all debts paid, is true peace and real freedom. Peace of mind and freedom from all pain.
Those countries that use firewalls or otherwise restrict the ability of their citizens to obtain access to information are hurting themselves, especially when it comes to their ability to compete economically.
The most important places to keep clean and tidy are my mind and heart. If I allow thoughts to flourish that I wouldnt want to see the light of day, I can never have any real self-respect. By starting each day in quiet reflection and pouring positive, loving thoughts into my mind, I gradually clean out cynicism and unkindness.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
