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"Honesty is the best policy."

— Benjamin Franklin

"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."

— Eric Hoffer

"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."

— Thomas Edison

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

— Albert Einstein

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

— Carl Jung

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

— George Washington

"One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole"

— Mahatma Gandhi

"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."

— Ramona L. Anderson

"Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support."

— Twelve AND Twelve
Step 11, pg. 97

"All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."

— Frances Wright

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."

— Ann Landers

"If you do not find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

— Paula A. Bendry

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

— Elbert Hubbard

"To ignore evi is to become an accomplice to it."

— Rev. Martin Luther King,Jr.

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

— Chinese Proverb

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."

— Abraham Maslow

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

— Marcel Proust

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."

— Andrew Carnegie

"Enlightenment is enormous grace, for which you can prepare by diligently peeling away layer after layer of disturbances, confusion and stress in mind and emotions.

The ego is incredibly cunning. The ego loves to co-opt a spiritual way of life. We hardly ever suspect it is there, and so it is safe to survive.

I ask myself if any activity, no matter how spiritual and enlightened it may seem, adds to my sense of self-importance, gives me more ego. If so, I am building more illusion, not less. I imprison myself more by coming to believe how special and spiritual I am. This is the hidden danger.
The guidance of a teacher, mentor or spiritual friend has been known to be of utmost importance. It helps you to navigate the difficult terrain of the ego and avoid its countless traps."

— Ram Giri

"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

— Mother Teresa

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt."

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

— Mark Twain

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."

— Wilson Mizner

"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."

— Lady Bird Johnson

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

— Hubert H. Humphrey

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

— George Santayana