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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the… — Heraclitus
Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house,… — Marianne Williamson
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked. — Pablo Casals
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. — Richard Sibbes
As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst. — William Jenkyn
Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. — Thomas A. Edison
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. — John Astin
I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when… — Stephen King
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but… — Margery Allingham
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does… — Andre Weil
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that… — Richard Bach
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin… — Laozi
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. — Sigurd F. Olson
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden… — Thomas Kinkade
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until… — Evelyn Underhill
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. — Ken Keyes Jr.
There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second,… — Ken Keyes Jr.
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your… — Ken Keyes Jr.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. — Eckhart Tolle
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another… — Marianne Williamson
When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes. — Alfie Kohn

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