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The Majjhima-Nikaya
Abandoning gossip, he abstains from gossip; he speaks at the
right time, speaks what is fact, speaks on what is good, speaks
on the Dhamma and the Discipline; at the right time he speaks
such words as are worth recording, reasonable, moderate, and beneficial.
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James
Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
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Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die
to one life before we can enter another.
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Hillel
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am
only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?
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Sakyamuni
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot
today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a
little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least
we didn't die; so, let us be thankful.
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HW Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of
our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm any hostility.
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Joseph Campbell
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is
to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. We're
so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track,
which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life
that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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