Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.
JAY SHETTYYou are not your success or your failure.
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
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Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
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We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
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Don’t judge the moment.
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When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
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When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.
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Be here now.
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They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego cage of I, me, and mine
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Tracking my fear of exam results and the other branch fears that appeared led me to the root: fearing I couldn’t make my parents happy
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Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.
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When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.
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Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. You’re my teacher.
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Live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody.
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You are not your success or your failure.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
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Life’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.
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Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.
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When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change
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A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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