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“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.”

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.”

“Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”