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Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent nonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.