"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."

Pilgrim, Peace on life
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"Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day."

Pilgrim, Peace on life   

"Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."

Pilgrim, Peace on anger
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"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

Pilgrim, Peace on negativity
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"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems."

Pilgrim, Peace on problems
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"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."

Pilgrim, Peace on speakers and speaking   

"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right."

Pilgrim, Peace on thoughts and thinking   

"For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections."

Pilgrim, Peace on vision
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"Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change."

Pilgrim, Peace on worry
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"You cannot be lost on a road that is straight."

Proverb on direction
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"Six feet of earth make all men equal."

Proverb on equality
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"Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing."

Proverb on enemies
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"By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome"

Proverb on evil
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"Weave in faith and God will find the thread."

Proverb on faith
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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

Proust, Marcel on desire
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

Proust, Marcel on dream
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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Proust, Marcel on happiness
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"We become moral when we are unhappy."

Proust, Marcel on morality
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full."

Proust, Marcel on suffering
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on disappointments
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

Roosevelt, Theodore on art
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

Dalai Lama on service
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence."

Confucius on neighbors
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"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

Confucius on prosperity
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."

Confucius on simplicity
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"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

Johnson, Samuel on adversity
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"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."

Johnson, Samuel on food and eating