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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it’s truth that prevails.

Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

You can only lose what you cling to.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

The tongue like a sharp knife … Kills without drawing blood.