Master Yuanwu
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
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You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The buck stops here.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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We come to beginnings only at the end.
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Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
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Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Don't water your weeds.
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Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
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All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Help me ! Help me !
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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There is no education like adversity.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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You only get out what you put in.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
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