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• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  Olive Schreiner

  Inspirational, Fear, Heart

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

  Ramana Maharshi

  Worry, Feelings, Ease

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Art, Yoga, Soul

  B. K. S. Iyengar (1985). “The art of Yoga”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to "let go" of their past hardship and pain by embracing, what I call, a Miracle Angle - a way of seeing their circumstances that allowed them to transform their circumstances into a spark for positive change.

  Rod Stryker

  Letting Go, Pain, Yoga

  "Let Go and Find Your Miracle Angle" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Vision, Action

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

  Gilbert Highet

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Art of Teaching".

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• The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Powerful, Equality, Suffering

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
  lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
  there to know what we have done for those we love.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, People, Unbearable

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• If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

  Spencer Silver

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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• They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

  Barbara Windsor

  Acting, Actors, Darling

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• So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers, not of the thorns. What good things others have done to you, what good things there are, what are the beautiful moments you have had, and count your blessings . Count your blessings, otherwise you cannot create peace.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. To be one with the whole is the real success. And when that success is achieved, then you really enjoy that growth - that growth of your awareness which makes you one with the whole. That is what you have to know, is to become your whole. You are just a fragment, a segment, a cell. You have to become the whole and that can be done only through this connection.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Real

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• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Ocean

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• When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with. And secondly, you forgive what you think has been done wrong to you. But because nothing wrong can be done to your spirit, you just forgive because you are the spirit. And when you forgive, you have found that your tension goes away.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Jobs

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• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Fads, Way

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Ideas

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• When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

  Jack Welch

  Teamwork, Teaching, Trying

  Jack Welch, John A. Byrne (2003). “Jack: Straight from the Gut”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Get Better, Enlightenment

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.15, H J Kramer

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• I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Acceptance, Steps, Vain

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• I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

  Mark Twain

  Country, Apology, Littles

  Tom Sawyer Abroad ch. 12 (1894)

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• Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.

  Mike Turzai

  Winning, Pennsylvania, Voters

  "Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’" by Annie-Rose Strasser, thinkprogress.org. June 25, 2012.

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