"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on quality
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"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

Motto on complaints and complaining
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"Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived."

Saying, Zen on zen
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"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself."

Tilopa on zen
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"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]"

Tozer, A. W. on ambition
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

Watts, Alan W. on zen
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"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."

Wright, Steven on mind
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"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on enlightenment
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"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it."

Hitchcock, Alfred on fear
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

Santayana, George on wisdom
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"If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions."

Selye, Hans on service   

"We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes."

Gray, John Edward on problems
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"Inch by inch, it's a cinch."

Schuller, Robert H. on things and little things   

"Acting is happy agony."

Guiness, Sir Alec on acting and actors
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"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Leissner, Larry on confusion
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

Adams, Henry Brooks on humankind
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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