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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. - Author object (71)

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection - Author object (71)

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? - Author object (71)

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - Author object (71)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Author object (71)

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Author object (71)

You only lose what you cling to. - Author object (71)

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without. - Author object (71)

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Author object (71)

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. - Author object (71)

What we think, we become. - Author object (71)

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. - Author object (71)

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it - Author object (71)

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these. - Author object (71)

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path. - Author object (71)

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. - Author object (71)

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? - Author object (71)

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Author object (71)

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are. - Author object (156)

To err is human, to forgive, divine. - Author object (181)