"You cannot fail unless you quit."
Karma quotes
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"God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire"
"Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself."
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
"There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone."
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
"If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop."
"Realize that everything connects to everything else."
"The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands."
"What goes around, comes around."
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
"Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again."
"Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you."
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't."
"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
"One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'"
"The law of Karma is the law of causation."
"That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace."
"Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in."