When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.Collection: Discipline
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
All that is not given is lost.Collection: Generosity
Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.Collection: Inspirational
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.Collection: Attachment
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.Collection: Perseverance
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.Collection: Thoughtful
The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life.Collection: Infinite Intelligence
Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.Collection: Compromise
But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!Collection: Dream
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!Collection: Cutting
Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.Collection: Let Me Go
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.Collection: Humor
Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.Collection: Basketball
Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.Collection: Yoga
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.Collection: Land
You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!Collection: Courage
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.Collection: Graduation
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.Collection: Wisdom
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.Collection: Spiritual
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.Collection: Intelligence
I do not believe this darkness will endure.Collection: Inspirational
The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.Collection: Letting Go
You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.Collection: Choices
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.Collection: Life
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.Collection: Wisdom
The client is not always right.
Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.Collection: Eye
I never look back, I look forward.
The secret is there is no secret.Collection: Secret
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.Collection: Fall
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.Collection: Writing
Mathematics is the science of patterns.Collection: Patterns
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.Collection: Beautiful
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.Collection: Artist
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?Collection: Ancestry
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.Collection: Alive
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.Collection: Spiritual
Art is too important not to share.Collection: Art
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.Collection: Experience
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.Collection: Life
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.Collection: Real
If you never change your mind, why have one?Collection: Change
Everyone sounded the same when they died.Collection: Died
Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.Collection: Powerful
You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.Collection: Real
To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.Collection: Silence
Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.Collection: Flower