Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.
GAUR GOPAL DASFamiliarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.
More Gaur Gopal Das Quotes
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Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny. It all begins with a thought.
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As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.
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What great men do, common men follow.
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Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.
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Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.
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Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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Physical violence is inflicted with weapons, but emotional violence is inflicted with words; words can leave invisible scars that can take years, or even lifetimes, to heal.
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When things are beyond your control and there is nothing you can do,why worry?
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This happens with all relationships, not just in marriages. If we are not proactive in our relationships, they start to seem dry and become cumbersome. We have to have respect for the other person, which is reflected in how sensitively we treat them.
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Live your life in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God will come to know God because they know you.
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Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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We should deal with each other sensitively; our attitude towards life affects how we act in our relationships.
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We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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