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Showing posts with label Thich Nhat Hanh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thich Nhat Hanh. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Posts from 5/17-19/15

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
- Matthew 16:26

 Happiness is your nature. It's not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

 Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
- Brian Tracy

 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Ephesians 4:2

 Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill

 Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
- Charles E Wilson

 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- Matthew 22:37-39

 It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso

 Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives
- William A Foster

 There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
- 1 Corinthians 2:9

 Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
- John Wayne

 Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.
- William Blake

 Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
- Gucci Slogan

 He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.
- 1 Samuel 2:9

 We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou

Saturday, May 16, 2015

5/11-16/15

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
- Walter Elliot

 Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
- Henry Charles Bukowski

 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
- James 4:10

 Power is the ability to do good things for others.
- Brooke Astor

 Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
- Mary Kay Ash

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
- Miyamoto Musashi

 One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
- Proverbs 29:23

 Smile, breathe and go slowly.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

 Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
- Robert Schuller

 As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over again the kind of thought we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau

 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
- John 4:24

 Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin

 To move the world we must first move ourselves.
- Socrates

 Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J Kaiser

 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
- Ephesians 6:12-13

 Try and fail, but never fail to try.
- Jared Leto

 Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
- Matthew 7:13

 The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford

 The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
- Julius Charles Hare

 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
- Mark 9:35

 You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
- Hugh Nibley

 Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
- Zig Zigler

 Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
- John 11:25-26

 Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
- Walt Disney

 Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
- Brian Tracy

 When we are no longer able to change a situation … we are challenged to change ourselves.
- Victor Frankel

You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.
- Psalm 86:5

 The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

 Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
- Sylvester Stallone

 Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle

 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
- Matthew 11:28-30

 If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse.
- Jim Rohn

 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
- Psalm 141:3