Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.
JAY SHETTYWe say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
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Be here now.
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You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
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Saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.
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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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Negativity is a trait, not someone’s identity.
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Everything you do is your spiritual life.
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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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Live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody.
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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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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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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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When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change
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Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
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Monks understand that routine frees your mind, but the biggest threat to that freedom is monotony. People complain about their poor memories, but I’ve heard it said that we don’t have a retention problem, we have an attention problem.
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