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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It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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Be Here Now.
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is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
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Don't water your weeds.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
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A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
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Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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After your jump, the net appears.
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Friendship is not born of words alone.
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