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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.

Gaur Gopal Das

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.
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Acceptance Break Up Choice Easy Fall Love Reason Relationship Right Yourself
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.
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Correct Forget Important Myself People
People who meditate develop a habit of practicing sincere gratitude which helps them in all their relationships. It is a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.
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Development Emotion Meditation People Relationship Strength Support
We must find positivity in the bleakest situations and live by the principle of gratitude
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Gratitude Live Positivity Principle
Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
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Company Friendship Powerful Yourself
Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.
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Fight Judgement Story Strong
If someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Choice Day Life Love Work Yourself
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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Action Beginning Character Destiny Habit Thinking Word Yourself
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Beginning Inspirational Journey Motivational Path
Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.
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Exercise Journey Meditation Travel Yoga Yourself
Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.
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Action Complication Deep Forgiveness Understand
What great men do, common men follow.
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Greatness Journey Man Path Yourself
You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.
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Attitude Growth Help Need Service Yourself
We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.
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Beyond Community Family Nation Ourselves Service
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.
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Better Change Choice Time Worse
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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Marriage Person Reflection Relationship Start Treat
Spirituality helps develop good character. It is character that shines bright when words fail to do so.
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Character Development Failure Goodness Shine Spirituality Word
Hot heads do not give good feedback – choose a better time.
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Angry Better Choice Head Time
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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Emotion Healing Leaving Life Scars Time Violence Weapon
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?
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Control Thinking Worry Yourself
Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.
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Avoid Choice Mistake People
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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Avoid Challenge Feeling Happiness Life Love Peace Reach Satisfaction
The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.
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Family Ourselves Practice Selfish
Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.
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Different Friendship Goodness Ourselves Relationship Spiritual Strong
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Darkness Drive Hate Light Love Yourself
To find your purpose in life, you must go on a journey of self-discovery.
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Discover Journey Life Purpose Yourself
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Angry Power Word

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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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