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"The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive."
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
"I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days."
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today."
"Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little."
"Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates."
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge."
"Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you."
"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."
"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."
"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
"I cannot be what I am not."
"I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent."
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
