Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.
Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.
Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"
What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.
Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.
The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.
Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
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