Glorious Truths

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance ...
All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama ...

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important ...
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose ...
You are already naked ...
There is no reason not to follow your heart ...

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself ...
True happiness is born of self-reliance ...

Trust yourself ...
Think for yourself ...
Act for yourself ...
Speak for yourself ...
Be yourself ...
Imitation is suicide ...

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare ...

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Travelling Thoughts

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves ...

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around ...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace ...

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Vividly Vibrant

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others ...

A loving person lives in a loving world ...
A hostile person lives in a hostile world ...
Everyone you meet is your mirror ...

Life is an adventure in forgiveness ...

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Travelling Thoughts

Problems disappear with change in perception ...
When there's snow on the ground, pretend you are walking on clouds ...

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear ... [Buddha]

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog ...

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults ...

Life is a series of collisions with the future, it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be ...

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Soothing Secrets

Content thyself to be obscurely good ....
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station ...

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you ...
And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another ...

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person ...
It was mine and only mine ...

One person can make a difference, and ever person must try ...

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance ... [Buddha]

To succeed, You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you ...

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run ...

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ...

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Ideally Inspirational

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either ...

People don't believe what you tell them ...
They rarely believe what you show them ...
They often believe what their friends tell them ...
They always believe what they tell themselves ...

We need men who can dream of things that never were ...

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly ...

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper ...

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Travelling Thoughts

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out ...

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself ...

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors ...

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Vividly Vibrant

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do ...

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ...

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish.
And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ...

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Ideally Inspirational

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach ...

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else ...
The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self ...

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved ...

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CSE

On a "meaningful" journey within the jungles of Ontologies and Taxonomies with ...
Introduction to Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (Liang Yu)

Triggering Times

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better ...
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time ...

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut ...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity ...

Life is full of obstacle illusions ...

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CSE

On an adventurous exploration into XML and Web Services technologies with ...
Pro PHP XML and Web Services (Robert Richards)

Travelling Thoughts

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence ...

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage ...

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect ...

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Vividly Vibrant

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good ...

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to a father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to yourself, respect;
to all men, charity ...

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' ...

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company ...

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Words of Wisdom

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities ...

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly,one-directionally, without regret or reservation ...

Time is the coin of your life ...
It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent ...
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you ...

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