Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
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Collection: Life
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Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
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Collection: War
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Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.
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Collection: Motivational
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Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
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Collection: Courage
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Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
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Collection: Powerful
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It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
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Collection: Needs
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Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
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Collection: Helping Others
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Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.
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Collection: Magic
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Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow
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Collection: Patience
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The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it.
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Collection: Way
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The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.
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Collection: Heart
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Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
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Collection: Fighting
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Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
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Collection: Space
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In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.
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Collection: Motivational
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Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
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Collection: Heart
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The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
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Collection: Gratitude
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If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else
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Collection: People
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In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
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Collection: Understanding
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There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.
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Collection: Spiritual
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How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it.
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Collection: Vision
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You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.
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Collection: Harmony
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By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
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Collection: Simple
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Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
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Collection: Mind
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Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
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Collection: Powerful
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Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.
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Collection: Motivational
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Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.
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Collection: Happiness
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You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
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Collection: Perception
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The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.
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Collection: Changing Your Life
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The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
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Collection: Gratitude
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Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.
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Collection: Heart
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The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free
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Collection: Heart
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If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you
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Collection: Secret
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Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
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Collection: Missing
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Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.
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Collection: Self
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What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
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Collection: Jobs
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First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice
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Collection: Choices
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You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools
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Collection: Wise
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While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
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Collection: Contentment
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Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
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Collection: Heart
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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
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Collection: Mindfulness
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A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.
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Collection: Humility
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While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
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Collection: Finding Yourself
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Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.
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Collection: Reality
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People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
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Collection: Self Esteem
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Life is the best and only timekeeper.
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Collection: Life Is
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The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
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Collection: Home
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Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating
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Collection: Appreciate
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All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
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Collection: Compassion
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Be a star not a diva!
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Collection: Stars