One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.

When you judge you are limiting yourself, you are limiting your reach.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

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