We practice being able to stand back to see the thoughts, memories, feelings, and emotions as merely thoughts, memories, and feelings, as merely mental states, and not something solid or real. “Me” and “mine” are just mental states.
- Tenzin Palmo, Into The Heart of Life
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
- C. S. Lewis
When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence
- Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
- Bennett Cerf
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
- Yamakavagga: Pairs
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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May rather skin, sinews and bones wither away, may the flesh and blood of my body dry up: I shall not give up my efforts so long as I have not attained whatever is attainable by manly perseverance, energy and endeavor!
- Appativana Sutta
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
- Panditavagga: The Wise
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne
A meditator incapable of diligence, like a king without bodyguards, is an easy target for his enemies, laziness and the negative emotions. The battle of liberation is about to be lost. Put on the armor of diligence without delay, and do battle with indolence.
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
