When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

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

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I never hold a grudge.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

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

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.