"Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not……" — Joan Z. Borysenko
"Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions."
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19 Quotes by Joan Z. Borysenko
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Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can…
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Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.
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Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love,…
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A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that…
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We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand,…
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Thank God for what doesn't need healing.
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Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other…
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Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth,…
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To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult…
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When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation…
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If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end…
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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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