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Welcome to these Amma Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Related topics: Values Service Compassion
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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