“To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.”

Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.

Think: Is this in my control? If yes, you can do something about it. If no, then you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, in both circumstances, why worry?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

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

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.

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.

Sit with a feeling don’t share it.

My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I’m handed, I’m gonna make the most of it. If it’s good for me, I’m gonna take it.

I’ve definitely accepted the fact that I’m not normal.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

You only knew the parts of me you accepted in yourself.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I’ve never accepted anything I haven’t earned.

Maybe the lesson is not how best to chase the things we think will make us happy, but learning to be happy wherever we are instead.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. Thats why you are called a Christian. If you remove Christ, theres only ian and that means I am nothing.