The head thinks. The heart knows.
RASHEED OGUNLARU
RASHEED OGUNLARU
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Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within.
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Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru Life is the best and only timekeeper.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru What people say and feel about you when you’ve left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.
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George LucasGeorge Lucas Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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