Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.
JAY SHETTYSometimes we can trace our fears through the actions we take, and sometimes it’s the actions we’re reluctant to take
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You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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We don’t have to do everything, that we can’t do everything, that what I can’t do is someone else’s gift and responsibility. My limitations make space for the gifts of other people
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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.
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You are who you are when no one is watching.
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Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.
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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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We can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.
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A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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So people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.
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No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.
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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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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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Our search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
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All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
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