Trust one who has gone through it.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Don't be sorry, be content - it's a choice not a chore. Never identify with others' sorrow or you will go down with them. Be with them, but stay up, so you can uplift them. Help them put things in perspective. But first do that for yourself. You are feeling sorry? Why? Have you lost something? It's an illusion - you have nothing to lose. Everything that comes to you comes to pass, literally. So let all things pass and you will turn the illusion of loss into the reality of liberation...and sorrow will be a distant memory.
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things....
Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative.
Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative.
All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is!
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Its so simple to be smart...just think of something stupid to say, and say
the opposite.
Solutions are never necessary because there are no problems, only our perception makes it seem so, and only our minds make our perceptions seem real. If there
is a problem it is our perception. That is hard to see in a world that celebrates and rewards the finding and solving of 'the problem'. When you decide that you
will no longer perceive the problem, you will see only the facts or a situation. Facts are just facts and any and every situation can always be improved, unless
it is in the past, then it's just a memory, and memories are never a problem, are they? If you can cancel from the patterns of your perceptions, the very idea of
'problem' then you will not only be a positive thinker and positive proactive actor, you will be a leader.
Nothing endures but change.
To see a person's specialities rather than their weaknesses is an act of co-operation.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
We all find occasion to reject and resist another person. We all like to put up a fight against anything we dislike on the evening news as we spectate the world. But we forget that when we decide we will resist something or somebody, either mentally or physically, we only empower the object of our resistance, either in reality or in our own minds. If you want to enjoy the ability to influence, always start with acceptance. If you want to disarm another begin with acceptance. If you want to encourage and empower another to change, start with acceptance. Dont make it conditional. Otherwise its just resistance disguised as acceptance, and you are still trying to control them. And we can all smell a controller...cant you?
To gain respect - firstly give it.
