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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“We can do no great things-only small things with great love.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

“Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

“Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.”

“These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”