"He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

"Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love."

"Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"It is a man's own mind - not his enemy or his foe that lures him into evil ways."

"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1940-Present):

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

"You are never going to get it all, you are it all already"

"Notice the acts of kindness other people do, rather than their wrongdoing."

"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now,
you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way
to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and
experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."

"One of the first steps along your path is learning tolerance by practicing seeing the world as it is rather than as you demand it to be."

"When tempted to judge others, remind yourself that they are part of the same divine creation as you are."

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

"If you shift your attention to the present moment, you automatically let go of stress about the past or future."

"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."

"All of the judgement concerning appearances is simply a tool for upgrading oneself by comparison to another."

"The habit of noticing so-called deficiencies is a tool that your ego uses to convince you that you are better than the people you are criticizing."

"There are no failed relationships. Every person who enters and exits your life does so in a mutual sharing of life's divine lessons. Some have longer roles to play than others, but ultimately, you will return to your relationship to the absolute."

"Instead of saying, "Why is this happening to me? Isn't this awful, Poor me," begin to say, "What do I have to learn from this?"
"You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
"Everything in your life that you ‘have to have’ owns you!"

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931):

"You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968):

"Like the ever-flowing waters of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood."

"Race prejudice is based on groundless fears, suspicions and misunderstandings."

"I judge people by their own principles, not by my own."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy."
 
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
 things that matter."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981):

"In my world, nothing ever goes wrong."

"You do not have any problems, only your body has problems...In your world, nothing stays, in mine nothing changes."

"My stand is clear: produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others, before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it - fight."

"Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage."

"Whenever love is withheld and suffering allowed to spread, war becomes inevitable. Our indifference to our neighbor's sorrow brings suffering to our door."

"For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing."

"Perfection is a state of the mind, when it is pure. I am beyond the mind, whatever its state, pure or impure. Awareness is my nature; ultimately I am beyond being and non-being."

"The greatest guru is your inner self. Truly he is the supreme teacher. He alone can take you to your goal and he alone meets you at the end of the road. Confide in him and you need no outer guru."

"You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."

"You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need."

"Yes, I appear to hear and see and talk and act, but to me it just happens as to you digestion or perspiration happens.  The body-mind machine looks after it, but leaves me out of it.  Just as you do not need to worry about growing hair, so I need not worry about words and actions.  They just happen and leave me unconcerned, for in my world nothing ever goes wrong."

"The very search for pleasure is the cause of pain."

"A man who moves with the earth will necessarily experience days and nights. He who stays with the sun will know no darkness."

"You are all drenched for it is raining hard.  In my world it is always fine weather. There is no night or day, no heat or cold.  No worries beset me there, nor regrets. My mind is free of thoughts, for there are no desires to slave for."

"Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain."

"The world is the adobe of desires and fears.  You cannot find peace in it.
For peace you must go beyond the world.  The root cause of the world is self-love. Because of it we seek pleasure and avoid pain."

"By all means be selfish; the right way.  Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you.  Destroy all that stands between you and happiness.  Be all; love all;be happy; make happy.  No happiness is greater."

"Fear and greed cause the misuse of the mind.  The right use of mind is in the service of love, of life, of truth, of beauty.

"The problem is not yours.  It is your minds only.  Begin by disassociating
yourself from your mind.  Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours."

"If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear.  I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear."

"Were I very rich, what difference would it make? I am what I am.  What else can I be? I am neither rich nor poor, I am myself.

"Knowledge gives power.  In practice it is very simple.  To control yourself, know yourself."

"There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BC-65 AD):

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

"If you wished to be loved, love."

"He who has great power should use it lightly."

"I do not distinguish by the eye, but with the mind, which is the proper judgement of man."

"There is no great genius without a tincture of madness."

"One should count each day a separate life."

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

"If we could trace our descendants, we should find all slaves
to come from princes, and all princes from slaves."

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

Publilius Syrus:

"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

"We are interested in others when they are interested in us."

"Patience is the remedy for every sorrow."

"In quarreling the truth is always lost."

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

"Take care that no one hates you justly."

Source Unknown / Anonymous:

"Overlook the faults of others and overcome your own."

"One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends."

"What comes from the heart reaches the heart."

"No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things."

"It isn't where you've come from, its where you're going."

"Take a quiet walk, now and again, with the real you, who lives beneath all the everyday distractions. Find strength, courage and insight in the beautiful person you are."

"Happiness should be a way to travel, not a destination."

"Fill your heart with goodness and there will be no place for evil. Fill the world with beauty, and there will be no room for darkness. Fill your moments with joy, and there will be no room for regret."

"We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejucide. It is noble to rise above them."

"Never be afraid to be wrong or you will never be right."

"It's hard to face tomorrow, but it's easier than facing no tomorrow."

"I have learned that a situation which cannot be solved is best avoided."

"Glance at what you might have to lose, but focus on what you want to achieve."

"Perception has a larger impact on us than reality."

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