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Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

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You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and e...

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Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language,...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love ...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

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In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to thin...

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Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So wh...

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Andy WarholThe Philosophy of Andy Warhol

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, a...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the ...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or e...

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Arthur Conan DoyleHis Last Bow: 8 Stories

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...

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I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

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Barry LopezCrossing Open Ground

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his...

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If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

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Bill WattersonIt's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life,...

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in the most decent sometimes sun there is the softsmoke feeling from urns and the canned sound of ol...

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Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want bu...

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Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can'...

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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history whe...

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There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

...life - whatever else it is - is short... maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's ...

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Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die ju...

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Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.

It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is ho...

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Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot b...

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Haruki MurakamiUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their ...

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Henry David ThoreauA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still

Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above ...

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And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble...

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You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to ...

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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, my...

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He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions t...

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I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as...

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One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and th...

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Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are...

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We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the exten...

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It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a ...

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Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advic...

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Jim HensonIt's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do t...

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Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live...

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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever ha...

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A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way w...

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And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a u...

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She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work...

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I' was the last word I was able to speak aloud, which is a terrible thing, but there it is, I would ...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s ...

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Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. ...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, y...

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When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes...

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There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

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Katherine PatersonThe Great Gilly Hopkins: Literature Guide

I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When ...

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The first day of the rest of my life.

There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in pr...

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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we th...

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Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle h...

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Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude w...

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Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and peopl...

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With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answere...

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At that period I paid as constant attention to the greater securing of my happiness, to enjoying and...

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We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the gl...

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There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yo...

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Life is about execution rather than purpose.

But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator’s ...

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