Lasting Quote by Mark Nepo

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

— Mother Maribel

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is…

— Charles Murray

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

— Shunryu Suzuki

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what…

— C. JoyBell C

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others…

— Frederick Lenz

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

— Eduardo Galeano

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

— Nelson Mandela

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

— Vladimir Putin

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

— John Fowles

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

— Bodhidharma

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

— Anonymous