Milarepa on Contentment
“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion.” - Milarepa
Archive for March, 2009
Dalai Lama on Nonviolence
“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”
- Dalai Lama
Bruce Barton on Belief
“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity — an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”
- Bruce Barton
Abigail Van Buren on Listening
“The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.”
- Abigail Van Buren
Lisa Alther on Change
“That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”
- Lisa Alther
Benjamin Franklin on Contentment
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Strength
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benjamin on Knowledge
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
- Benjamin
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