The source of our unease is the unfulfillable longing for a lasting certainty and security, for something solid to hold on to.

Pema Chödrön   [source: Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears]

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Attributed to Winston Churchill ( 1874 – 1965)   [source: As quoted in “Words to Live By : 365 A Wise thought for every day” by Helen Exley]

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There is no satisfying the senses,
not even with a shower of money.
“The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering.”
When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, 
as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven.
Instead, he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

Buddha   [source: Dhammapada (186-187)]

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…though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing…

Galway Kinnell   [source: Saint Francis and the Sow (poem)]

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Puzzlement and doubt… are the beginnings of mental freedom.

Joost Meerloo   [source: The Rape of the Mind (PDF)]

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Those who deem the worthless as valuable,
And see the valuable as worthless:
They do not attain the valuable;
They roam in the field of wrong thought.

Buddha   [source: Dhammapada 1.11]

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Train your mind to see good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Anonymous

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Suffering, then, is the initial movement of the recognition of false boundaries… It points beyond boundaries altogether.

Ken Wilber [source: No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth]

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You have nothing to prove to anyone, no quota to meet, and no responsibility towards being what others think you should be. However, you do have a responsibility to yourself, to be yourself.

Dr BethAnne Kapansky Wright   [source: Small Pearls Big Wisdom: 365 Reflections on the Heart of Being Human]

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In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go?

Jack Kornfield   [source: Buddha’s Little Instruction Book]

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