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From a withered tree, a flower blooms.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha True love is born from understanding.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Attachment leads to suffering.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha
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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
John LewisJohn Lewis The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
Thich Nhat HanhThich Nhat Hanh Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais NinAnais Nin To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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