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"Your greatness is not what you have, but what you give." Alice Hocker

"True love is when you both feel like you've found someone you don't deserve." Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

"Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours." Ralph Emerson

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Mohandas Gandhi

"The success of love is in the loving, it is not in thre result of loving." Mother Teresa

"The act of taking the first step is what seperates the winners from the losers." Brian Tracy

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Cicero

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"Love is the stranger with a strange language. Love is the language that cannot be said or heard." Rumi

"Happiness will come when you bring happiness to others." Gyalwang Drukpa

"You will know you have forgiven the past when you no longer react to it." Buddhist wisdom

"Learn who you are. Unlearn who they told you to be." Sylvester McNutt

"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." Eckhart Tolle

"The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. So look deeply at life as it is." Gyalwang Drukpa

"Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation. In fact, in most cases it keeps you stuck in it, blocking real change." Eckhart Tolle

"A very good practice for preventing anger in the first place is to become masterful at listening." Gyalwang Drukpa

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool." Albert Camus

"Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words." Rumi

"Learn to watch and wait. Emotions come and go like waves on the shore, so if you can be mindful of them you will understand where they come from and also that they are impermanent, like everything." Gyalwang Drukpa

"Pain is all about non-acceptance." Ajahn Brahm

"The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it." Sufi saying

"Give quietly; don't make a song and dance about it." Gyalwang Drukpa

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." Charles W. Eliot

"If the Universe put a dream in your heart, it has every intention for you to make it happen." Anonymous

"If you disagree with someone, make a conscious effort to step into their shoes and see the situation from their point of view. Even if you continue to disagree, you will gain some understanding." Gyalwang Drukpa

"People trying to change the world to make themselves feel better are doing a service neither for the world nor themselves." Anonymous

"Practice leaving things be. Let others be themselves—who are we to judge?—and let us concentrate on improving our own minds and our own lives instead." Gyalwang Drukpa

"There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict." U.G. Krishnamurti

"Love invites you to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any question. To seek any answer. To share any thought. To worship any God." Neale Donald Walsch

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"Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions." Zen proverb

"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children." Native American Proverb

"There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change." Confucius

"Ask yourself what "problem" you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?" Eckhart Tolle

"To enjoy life immensity, you do not need many things." Ryokan

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires." Lao Tzu

"Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river." Tao Proverb

"If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are." Dogen Zenji

"Stop thinking, and end your problems." Lao Tzu

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf." Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Ultimate Facts

Humans can outrun almost every animal on earth over long distances.

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Amazing! If your DNA was stretched out it would reach the Moon 1500 times!

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Wow, I didn't know this: dogs and cats mainly sweat from their footpads.

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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive." Joseph Campbell

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." Rumi

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean

"In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Think to yourself that every day is your last." Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character." Arthur C Clarke

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." Dr. Seuss

"When words fail, music speaks." Hans Christian Andersen  

"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it." Frank Tyger

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." Henry Van Dyke

"It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’." Lailah Gifty Akita

"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." Henry Miller

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"Life is ten percent of what happens to you and ninety percent what you make of it." Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality." Alfred Painter

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self." Marianne Williamson

"Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal." Deepak Chopra

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"The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love." Marianne Williamson

"Respect your uniqueness and drop comparison. Relax into your being." Osho

"My actions are my only true belongings." Thich Nhat Hanh

"The best way out is always through." Robert Frost

"If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself." Rumi

"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God." Marcus Aurelius

"What is planted in each person's soul will sprout." Rumi

"Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego." Eckhart Tolle

"The only spiritual life you need is not to react." Sri Ramana Maharshi

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." Franz Kafka

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LOL, so true... :-)

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"He who is filled with love is filled with God himself." Saint Augustine

"Love is patient and kind. It isn't jealous and it doesn't sing its own praises, nor is it ever arrogant." The Bible

"To think, or not to think... This is the true question." Bert McCoy

"True love has no opposite. If you love has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego." Eckhart Tolle

"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence." Lao Tse

"Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space." Joseph P. Kauffman

"When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute." Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The changless part in you recognizes change." Bert McCoy

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." Lao Tse

"The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past." Bert McCoy

"Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength." Lao Tse

"When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost." Bert McCoy

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"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." Rumi

"Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’" Lao Tzu

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." Socrates

"If you want to know the truth hold no opinions." Zen saying

"When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life." Eckhart Tolle

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." Lao Tzu

"Emit positive vibes into the world around you, and the world will give positivity right back." Nicole Addison

"If we pay too much attention to things we will keep on seeing things. If you pay more attention to the space in which things come and go, then you stop seeing things and you´ll feel just a harmony with the space itself!" Mooji

"When you don’t understand, you depend on reality.  When you do understand, reality depends on you." Bodhidharma

"Accept life as it is, in its naturalness, and live it in its totality." Osho

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SquirrelSpider's Favourite Quotations turned 2 today!

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"Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off." Anonymous

"Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth." from The Magic Monastery by Idries Shah

"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen." Henry David Thoreau

"Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve." Anonymous

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." Confucius

"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes." Tori Amos

"It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life and you can't remember how you ever lived without them." Anonymous

"Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are." Deepak Chopra

"Hold the vision. Trust the process." Anonymous

"Make the world more beautiful. You should leave the world more beautiful than you have found it when you were born - then you have done some service to existence." Osho

"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off the blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire." Rumi

"The celestial Tao does not strive, and yet overcomes everything. It does not speak, yet it is skillful in replying. It does not call, yet things come to it readily. It is quiet in its methods, yet its plans are thoroughly effective. The net of Heaven has large meshes, and yet nothing escapes it!" from the Tao Te Ching

"Make your anger so expensive that no one can afford it and make your happiness so cheap that people can almost get it free." Anonymous

"Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you." Idries Shah

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." Chief Seattle, 1854

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a change, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Anonymous

"Every day is a new beginning, a new chance, a new opportunity. Take it with open hands and move forward into something greater. I am so much happier now as a person by moving forward and giving my life another go." Anonymous

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." Confucius

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill

"The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose." Idries Shah

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12 Myths that Lead to a Busy, Unfulfilling Life

15 years ago, I quit law school to pursue one overarching question: “Why do capable people fail to break through to the next level?” The answer to the question, to my great surprise, is success.