“The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.”
“When you have an open mind and you re flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly because you re able to feel and remain neutral at the same time. You re curious.”
“In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one s social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one s success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one s development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one s spiritual life.”
“Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.”
“Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.”
“Self-confidence comes with self-awareness.”
“Identifying your feelings can help you explain your reactions”
“Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society s for your best possible future.”
“I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.”
“Loving yourself may seem like the hardest thing to do. But it s the greatest gift you can give yourself. If you re waiting for someone else to do it for you, you re wasting your time.”
“Through you the world learns to recognize itself — as heaven.”
“I don t have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.”
“There s always something we don t know anything about. she said. More than we like to admit. The more we discover, the more we realize we don t fully understand. Our world, our solar system, the universe... it all adds up. I mean, when you think about it-- do we even know that much about ourselves?”
“I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.”
“For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate?”
“When I m sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.”
“You may travel the whole world, but you ll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.”