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Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

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 want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

We can only know where we’re going if we know where we’ve been.

Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.

If you are born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it’s your mistake.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.