“Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.”

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

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.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

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.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

The eyes are the window to the soul,

A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Behind the smiles, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about.

What great men do, common men follow.

Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.