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Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties
gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations
that life will someday force us to make.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
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