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- Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and…
- If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been…
- We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for…
- We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to…
- When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself)…
- Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
- Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
- The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.
- Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can…
- Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal…
- I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic…
- It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
- We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only…
- One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
- Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a…
- The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only…
- It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and…
- Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose…
- Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act…
- When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have…
- Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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