Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Men must know their limitations.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.