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You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

Gaur Gopal Das

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
The paradox of our times is that those who have the most can often be the least satisfied.
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Deep Material Satisfaction Time
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Angry Power Word
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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Character God Inspirational Life Live Motivational Yourself
It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.
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Deep Strange Word
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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Job Rob Sorrow Worry Yourself
As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Habit Myself Ourselves Stay
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
What great men do, common men follow.
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Greatness Journey Man Path Yourself
Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.
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Affect Change Strange
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
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
We need to understand the hierarchy of connections. Ultimately, we must connect to something above ourselves such as God. This can give us the power to spread happiness and joy around the world.
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Connection God Happiness Joy Need Understand World
One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.
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Ability Beautiful Judgement Moral Oneself
When things are beyond your control and there is nothing you can do,why worry
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Beyond Control Worry Yourself
The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.
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Family Ourselves Practice Selfish
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
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
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
Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.
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Company Friendship Powerful Yourself
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
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
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
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
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.
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Gratitude Life Practice Reflection Stop Yourself

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