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Buddha – Peace of Mind

Once Buddha was traveling with a few of his followers. While they were passing a lake, Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from the lake.”

The disciple walked up to the lake. At that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy and turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink?”

So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”

After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake.

The disciple went back, and found that the water was still muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same.

After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back.

This time, the disciple found the mud had settled down, and the water was clean and clear. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,” See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be, and the mud settled down on its own — and you have clear water.

Your mind is like that too ! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”

Having ‘Peace of Mind’ is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless process!

More Inspirational Quotes About Life

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Huxley quotes.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you’re successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason. Wayne Dyer quotes.

Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. Brian Tracy quotes.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy quotes.

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy quotes.

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You see, it’s never the environment; it’s never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events that shapes who we are today and who we’ll become tomorrow. Tony Robbins.

Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose. Lance Armstrong .

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. Abraham Lincoln.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes.

Inspirational Quotes About Life

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“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own”.  Mother Teresa quotes.

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other”. Mother Teresa quotes.

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it“.  Mother Teresa quotes.

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“After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her”. Mark Twain quotes.

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him”. Mark Twain quotes.

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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”. Oscar Wilde quotes .

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead”. Oscar Wilde quotes.

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”. Oscar Wilde quotes.

-Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Books

“What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that
happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently
planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?”–  Quote from A Course in Miracles

“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive”. Mahatma Gandhi quotes

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”. Mahatma Gandhi quotes

-Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Books

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“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs”. Dale Carnegie quotes.

“All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is the one who is willing to do and dare”. Dale Carnegie quotes.

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“When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately”. Stephen R. Covey quotes.

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“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe”. Oprah Winfrey .

“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life”. Oprah Winfrey.

“Energy is the essence of life”. Oprah Winfrey.

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Life Quotes – Famous Life Quotes, Inspirational Quotes About Life

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself”. George Bernard Shaw.

“It is not length of life, but depth of life”. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can”. Cary Grant.

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well”. Josh Billings.

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh”. George Bernard Shaw.

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies”.  Erich Fromm.

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life”. Albert Camus.

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits”. Thomas Jefferson

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”. Leo Buscaglia

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude”. William James

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them”. Kahlil Gibran

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life”.  Buddha

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Tony Robbins

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

Bruce Lee Inspirational Quotes

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Real living is living for others.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you truly love life, don’t waste time; because time is what life is made of.

If you think something is impossible, you have already made it impossible.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Jim Rohn Quotes

“Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.”

“We either pay the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”

“Profits are better than wages.”

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Faith without discipline serves no useful purpose.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It is not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs. Help them with their lives.

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.

When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it.

Give a lecture to a thousand people. One walks out and says, “I’m going to change my life.” Another one walks out with a yawn and says, “I’ve heard all this before.” Why is that? Why wouldn’t both be affected the same way? Another mystery.

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

There are some things you don’t have to know how it works. The main thing is that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends which end of this you want to get in on.

The guy says, “When you work where I work, by the time you get home it’s late. You’ve got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can’t sit up half the night planning, planning, planning.” And he’s the same guy who’s behind on his car payment.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

The greatest definition for concentration I ever heard is: Wherever you are, be there!”

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to an hour.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can’t get more time.

There are three things to leave behind: your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

The word “tip” stands for “to insure promptness.” So when should you give it? Up front, of course. Sophisticated people don’t take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. Not you.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn’t say,If you need,you will reap. It says,If you plant you will reap.
The guys says,I really need to reap. Then you really need to plant.

Thomas Edison Quotes

“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”

“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.”

“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.”

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”

“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”

Self Motivation And Inspirational Quotes About Life

Not everyone is self motivated; it is only for the gifted few. But lesser mortals need some kind of inspiration in some form, especially in moments of distress. Hence, inspirational quotes about life by famous people have always found a great market. . These quotes are good enough not only for the depressed but also for those who want to improve their quality of life. One such book is 1001 Motivational Quotes for Success: Great Quotes from Great Minds written by Thomas J. Vilord. It comes in paper back and is priced at $ 949.

This book is the compilation of quotes of famous people who were either business men or great motivators of their time. Since it is taken from people belonging to all strata, it is useful and applies to anyone- woman, professional, sports person, student or some one who wants to succeed in life.  This is the kind of motivation and energy they have been looking for and by reading this book, it is sure to take them to great heights.

The human energy is like a bomb that gets blown up when there is a trigger. So, the trigger can be in the form of a person, a book, a discourse or guidance from a mentor or a coach. But this book is all in one as it is a combination of all that we need. The book starts with the quote what you declare you will achieve and also quotes the words of Todd bellemere, “courage is facing your fears, stupidity is, fearing nothing”. It also includes the quotes of the great Napoleon Hill, Dr Samuel Johnson (great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance) and also says, people become successful the minute they decide to.

It also shows the path through which success can be achieved through the quote, time patience and perseverance will accomplish all things.  There are quotes from unknown author too like, to be a winner, all you have to do is give all you have.  Anyone reading this book is sure to get inspired and reading any one or two quotes in the morning helps to give the needed strength and determination for the day. Since each and every quote is given in separate boxes, it is easy to read and remember them. Truly, this book is ideal to be given as a gift to a friend or others to become successful in life.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Les Brown

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life

Edward Butler

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

Best Life Quotes: Reading These Quotes Can Help You Look Forward To Each Day

Are you looking at life like it is just the same mundane and routine tasks everyday? There are many people who have made life into something that is boring and something they do not enjoy. Life should not be this way, and when you read the best life quotes you can find you will be able to reinforce some of the motivation you felt for life before you became so down about it. In this article I am going to discuss what some of the best life quotes talk about and why it is important to remember these principals.

“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”

Grace Hansen

Helping you to achieve goals

How important is it for people to strive for goals and actually accomplish them? Many times people will get discouraged and have a hard time keeping on when things get tough. By reading the best life quotes people can reinforce the motivation they need to accomplish goals so they can feel a strong sense of accomplishment and self worth.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain

Helping people to try

The best life quotes can help give people that push they may need to try something when they feel like not trying at all. A lot of people believe they shouldn’t try to accomplish something if they feel there is a small chance for it to actually happen. But the truth that simply trying something will make a person feel good about themselves rather than not trying at all. The best life quotes will help people realize this for themselves.

Understanding purpose in each and every day

Reading the best life quotes on a regular basis can help those who are having a difficult time understanding their life’s purpose. When people get out of the bed in the morning they may have a difficult time feeling like there is a purpose to each day. Reading certain life quotes can help you understand what your purpose is. The best life quotes are going to require you to think and do a lot of self-reflecting. Once this is done your everyday purpose should become much clearer then what it might be now.

As you can see by reading the best life quotes you will be able to do wonders for your life. Do you believe this is going to have a strong benefit to you? Sure it is, because you will get out of bed in the morning looking forward to each day. What this means is you will not drag yourself around like you are miserable and others will sense your positive attitude. All of this can be had by consistently reading the best quotes about life on a regular basis.

“Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woody Allen Inspirational Quotes

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” It sounds good to me, I mean the practicality of all things does involve money but it doesn’t have to take an arm and a leg to get it.

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.”

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” This happens to be one of the classic ones. I mean the issue about life’s little problems isn’t all that bad, until ‘he’ shows up.

“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” If it rains, it pours.

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” It could get worse when you’re guzzling on beer… or mouthwash, and it happened to me once!

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” At least he doesn’t smite us with lightning, and I’m thankful for that.

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.”