We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
~ Sai Baba
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.