“The present moment is eternally new. Happy New Moment.”
“This will never come again”
“The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.”
“The determination to win is the better part of winning.”
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
“You only lose what you cling to.”
“Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.”
“Attachment leads to suffering.”
“O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!”
“The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from love Born out of compassion for all beings. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.”
“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.”
“True change is within; leave the outside as it is.”
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
“Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one s mind is the essence of the Buddha s teaching.”
“Where there are humans, You ll find flies, And Buddhas.”
“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”