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When you let go of needing things, you are freed to feel a wonderful inner peace.

There is an ebb and flow of life, a time to take action and a time just to be.

Recognize your own uniqueness and you will not need to compete with anyone else.

The paradox is control is simple, the more we try to control life, the less control we have.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Change your thoughts and you change your life.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Only when you seek out your dream can you be at the right place at the right time to find it.

When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

True happiness is born of self-reliance.

Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

When we cling to the past, we are unavailable to the present.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

The difference between craziness and creative intuition is whether the experience yields productive growth.

We are impulsively drawn to immediate gratification, which is stronger than remote reward. Our first impulse is in the “high-risk zone,” where we are most vulnerable. When we push through that first impulse, 90% of the time we will be successful.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by accepting them as they are. Acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

One cannot reach the dawn except through the darkness of night.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Ask yourself, “How would the Buddha (Christ, etc.) handle this situation?” The moment you look through their eyes and forgive what happened is the moment when you are enlightening yourself.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Forgiveness

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Forgiveness is letting go of wishing for a better past.

When we say we are forgiving the other person, it is actually us who is still holding and carrying the weight of the emotional negativity.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look, which becomes a habit.

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Sometimes the best way to make the most out of a situation is to get out of it. The other way is to accept it, and be grateful it isn’t worse.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive.

Kindness

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

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