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Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing it is stupid. —Albert Einstein
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. —The Buddha
Let’s take romance novels, for a similar example: they do a great job describing love as it was experienced by somebody else, but reading them or watching romantic comedies is quite different than actually falling in love.
Your beliefs don’t make you a better person; your behavior does. —Anonymous
energy flows where attention goes
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. —Wayne Dyer
“Kindness is my religion,”
It is determined by your behavior, not your beliefs.
Humility doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself; it means thinking of yourself less. —C. S. Lewis
value everyone as my teacher.
Come to think of it, we ARE treating others the way we treat ourselves: poorly!
I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I think I’m gonna go out there and make some more! —Anonymous
What a chapter!
Voting
You’re not stuck in traffic; you ARE traffic. We blame society, but we ARE society. —Anonymous
everything you already have: from a comfortable bed to sleep on, to a roof over your head, to clean air, drinking water, food, clothes, friends, functioning lungs, and a beating heart.
Live simply so that others may simply live. —Gandhi
You never make the same mistake twice. The second time you make it, it’s no longer a mistake; it’s a choice.
Attaining realization is not about what we know, but what we do with that knowledge.
What is detrimental to your health? Why are you still doing it?
All know the Way, but few actually walk it. —Bodhidharma
it’s actually okay for a book to have an unhappy ending.
The Two Wolves
Your words have tremendous power—even the words you say to yourself—so please choose them wisely.
People don’t need a reason to help people. —Anonymous
An ounce of practice is worth more than a ton of preaching. —Gandhi
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can. —John Wesley
the non-sectarian Charter for Compassion,
