My Favorite Words of Wisdom

''You are as young as you think you are.''

''Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny.''

"Learn a lesson one time, gain wisdom one time.''

-''The best doctor is one who can treat sickness before it occur, instead of after it appears.''

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”

-Lao-Tzu

“ He that knows himself knows others.”

-Colton

''If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. ''

-Tzu-Sun

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

-Aristotle

"Everything has a soul.''

''Soul is the boss.''

''The simplest way is the best way.''

''The big way is extremely simple.''

''Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.''

"The principle reasons or failure are: Lack of confidence 'and too much effort."

''Love melts all blockages and transforms all life.''

''Love has immeasurable power to remove all kind of blockages.''

''Ancestor plants the tree. Dependents enjoy the shade.''

''Mind over matter.''

''Soul over matter.''

''If you do not want people to know, do not do it. If you do it, you know, heaven knows, earth knows.''

''A harmonized family will bring flourishing.''

"Learn a lesson one time, gain wisdom one time.''

''The best doctor is one who can treat sickness before it occur, instead of after it appears.''

''The law of life is the law of belief.''

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''There is no virtue in poverty.''

''Nothing can disturb you but your own thought.''

''There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.''

''Fear is man greatest enemy.''

''The solution lies within the problem.''

''The answer is in every question.”

''Habit is the function of the subconscious mind.”

''You are as young as you think you are.''

''Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny.''

"Learn a lesson one time, gain wisdom one time.''

-''The best doctor is one who can treat sickness before it occur, instead of after it appears.''

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”

-Lao-Tzu

“ He that knows himself knows others.”

-Colton

''If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. ''

-Tzu-Sun

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

-Aristotle

"Everything has a soul.''

''Soul is the boss.''

''The simplest way is the best way.''

''The big way is extremely simple.''

''Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.''

"The principle reasons or failure are: Lack of confidence 'and too much effort."

''Love melts all blockages and transforms all life.''

''Love has immeasurable power to remove all kind of blockages.''

''Ancestor plants the tree. Dependents enjoy the shade.''

''Mind over matter.''

''Soul over matter.''

''If you do not want people to know, do not do it. If you do it, you know, heaven knows, earth knows.''

''A harmonized family will bring flourishing.''

"Learn a lesson one time, gain wisdom one time.''

''The best doctor is one who can treat sickness before it occur, instead of after it appears.''

''The law of life is the law of belief.''

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''There is no virtue in poverty.''

''Nothing can disturb you but your own thought.''

''There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.''

''Fear is man greatest enemy.''

''The solution lies within the problem.''

''The answer is in every question.”

''Habit is the function of the subconscious mind.”

''You are as young as you think you are.''

''Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny.''

"Learn a lesson one time, gain wisdom one time.''

-''The best doctor is one who can treat sickness before it occur, instead of after it appears.''

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”

-Lao-Tzu

“ He that knows himself knows others.”

-Colton

''If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. ''

-Tzu-Sun

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

-Aristotle

"Everything has a soul.''

''Soul is the boss.''

''The simplest way is the best way.''

''The big way is extremely simple.''

''Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.''

"The principle reasons or failure are: Lack of confidence 'and too much effort."

''Love melts all blockages and transforms all life.''

''Love has immeasurable power to remove all kind of blockages.''

''Ancestor plants the tree. Dependents enjoy the shade.''

''Mind over matter.''

''Soul over matter.''

''If you do not want people to know, do not do it. If you do it, you know, heaven knows, earth knows.''

''A harmonized family will bring flourishing.''

"Learn a lesson one time, gain wisdom one time.''

''The best doctor is one who can treat sickness before it occur, instead of after it appears.''

''The law of life is the law of belief.''

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''There is no virtue in poverty.''

''Nothing can disturb you but your own thought.''

''There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.''

''Fear is man greatest enemy.''

''The solution lies within the problem.''

''The answer is in every question.”

''Habit is the function of the subconscious mind.”

''That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.''

-Henry David Thoreu

''Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval.''

-Oscar Wilde

''If you don't have a plan for pleasure, you will have pain.''

''Let it happen, Be Sensual.''

''Communication is the cornerstone to any meaningful relationship.''

''One forsakes pleasures only for greater ones.''

-Blaise Pascal

''Tone down your rational-thinking mind and let whatever happen, happen.''

''Every perfect action is companied by pleasure.

 By that you can tell that you ought to do it.

 -André Gide

''All human activity is prompted by desire.

-Bertrand Russell

''It is a sad fact that man does not live for pleasure alone.

-Albert Einstein

''The truly wise man must be intelligent and expert in the use of natural pleasures as in all the other functions of life

-Montaigne

''Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.''

-Oscar Wilde

''Pleasure is the creative force in life. It is the only force strong enough to oppose the potential destructiveness of power.''

-Alexander Lowen, 1970

''Growth takes place in small, steady increments.''

''Give me a place to stand and I could move the world.''

-Archimedes

 '' Your health is your own responsibility.''

''Illness provides an opportunity for growth.''

''All action begins in Rest....This is the ultimate truth.''

-Lao Tzu

"The object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible.''

-Granville Hicks

“Success is not the key to happiness. .Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

-Albert Schweitzer

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

 -Albert Einstein

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our best chance for happiness is education.”

.-Mark Van Doren

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

-Aristotle

“Fulfillment was necessary for happiness.”

“Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”

“Happiness as the ultimate currency.”

“Without health, pleasure, wisdom, knowledge, loss their color and fade away.''

-Montaigne

''Very few people know what real health is because most are occupied with killing themselves slowly.''

-Nobel laureate Albert Szent Györgyi

''Our questions determine our thought.''

''Giant goals produce giant motivation.''

'' Reading is feeding your mind.''

''The human body is the best picture of the human soul.''

''Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.''

''That which does not destroy me strengthens me.''

'' The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at the time.''

''There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. This way is simply: Be happy.''

"The truth is always near at hand, within your reach.''

                          -D. T. Suzuki

"Done correctly, happiness is an inevitable end.''

'' What happen to you will benefit you.''

" The way of Zen means doing anything and everything with particular concentration and awareness of mind.''

'' To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things.''

                           -Zen master Dogen

“To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.''

              -Shunryu Suzuki

''Zen is simply...that state of centerdness which is here and now.''

                 -Alan Watts

''If anything can go wrong, it will.''

                                           -Murphy's law

''There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.''

                  -William Shakespeare

''Everything that happens to you is the best possible thing that can happen to you.''

''Everything that happens to us is for our complete benefit.''

''Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

-Chuang Tzu

'' Happiness comes from within. It is a state that produced by our minds.''

''Happiness or unhappiness is the product of desire, attachment and ego.''

''Every action produces a reaction, and that reaction is in exact accord with the action.''

-Metaphysical law

''Everything that happens to you is the best possible thing that can happen to you.''

''My mind is the gilding rein.''

                                               -The Buddha

'' Nothing is as it appears.''

                                                -The Buddha

''The highest nobility lies in taming .your own mind.''

                           -Attica

''That which you can conceive you can achieve.''

''Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you are right.''

                       -Henry Ford

''Obey the nature of things, and you will walk freely and undisturbed.''

              -Seng-Ts'An

''Oneness with nature and living in harmony with its way are keys to inner peace.''

''Seeing through to essential nature is the window of enlightenment.''

               -Hakuun Yasutani Roshi

''All the laws of universe are in

Favor of the continuation of the universe.''

''Nothing can be lost or destroyed, only changed.''

''Embrace simplicity....Be content with what you have and are and not one can despoil you.''

-Tao Te Ching

" He who has once known the contentment that comes simply through being content will never again be otherwise than contented.''

-Tao Te Ching

"Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.''

"One of the greatest obstacles between you and happiness is stress.''

''The true of source of happiness is within each of us.''

''The angry man will defeat himself in the battle as well as in life.''

-Samurai maxim

"This moment we call now is all that exists.''

"We are the authors of every next moment.''

"The answers are never '' out there''. All the answers are " in there" inside you, waiting to be discovered.''

'' Healing the past enables you to be happy in the present.''

''The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater you desire for it will become.''

"Attitudes and beliefs that set the stage for success.''

''In this world, anything is possible when you put your mind to it.''

''Health is the greatest form of wealth.''

"Be careful what you ask for-you just might get it.''

" Change the words you use can change the way you think, feel, and act."

"Words can physically affect your body as well as your mind."

"The words of a doctor can affect a patient's health.''

" People don't always do what they say, but they always do what they believe.''

''When you change the way you look at things, the thing you look at change.''

-Dr Wayne Dyer

"Belief power is a thousand times stronger than will power.''

''If you have no goal, you go nowhere.''

''We can reprogram our mind with new targets and change the direction

of our life at any age.''

'' Up to 95% of our behaviors are unconsciously chosen.''

'' 99% of brain's functions makes up by the unconscious mind.''

'' A habit is an automatic behavior pattern that has been turned over to unconscious control.''

“Suffering is a mandatory requirement of the gift of being alive.''

''The problems have a power to attract more problems.''

''Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.''

''The true tolerance is to tolerate the intolerable.''

''The worse you feel, the more you must try to make others feel good.''

'' Humans are the angriest of animals.''

“Life is a sexually transmitted condition with a mortality rate of 100 percent.''

-David Shaw

''Subconscious mind controls of 90% of our behavior.''

'' We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.''

-Dalai Lama

''If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.''

-Maya Angelou

'' We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.''

                       -John Dryden

''Things do not change; we change.''

                                         -Henry David Thoreau

'' Wealth and success are meaningless without happiness.''

'' Happiness for any reason is just another form of misery.''

                       -The Upanishads

'' Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.''

-Aristotle

'' Compassion is the basis of all morality.''

'' Out of depression, if we beat it, we can immerge stronger, happier, more engaged in life.''

''Without effort, there is no result.''

'' The more motivated you are to do something, the more likely you'll invest effort in it.''

''It is never too late to be what you might have been.''

-George Eliot

'' If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.''

'' Materialism not brings happiness, but it's been shown to be a strong predictor of unhappiness.''

''Self-realization-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.''

The basic condition of all life is '' We win some and we lose some.''

''The intimate relationships are the primary source of human happiness because men are the social being.''

'' The capacity to be alone is the indication of emotional maturity and inner security.''

''Happiness consists more in small conveniences pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

-Benjamin Franklin

''Love is brief, but frequently recurring.''

'' The cure for unhappiness is happiness.''

'' The past is dead. The future is imaginary. Happiness can only be in the eternal now moment. ''

-Ken Keyes , Jr.

''It is more important to be the right person than to find the right person.''

'' A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.''

''Everyone you meet is your mirror.''

''Everyone and everything around you, is your teacher.''

''What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow; our life is the creation of our mind.''

-Lord Buddha

''Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.''

-William Brake

''All things come into being by conflict of opposites.''

                           -Heraclitus-500 BCE

''Love everyone unconditionally including yourself.''

''To be upset over what you don't have, is to waste what you do have.''

''You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.''

'' You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.''

'' Love, happiness, wisdom, and fulfillment is your birthright in life.''

'' You win some and lose some''

'' You can do anything you prefer as long as you are not addicted.''

'' You do not need to be addicted to money or knowledge in order to acquire them.''

'' You can prefer to have money or knowledge what ever the river of your life brings to you.''

''We see things not as they are-but as we are.''

Human nature

"Over 99% of the people in the world today are stuck with the nervous systems that usually operate by blaming the outside world for any problems they experience."

"Over 99% of the people in the western world live on lower consciousness levels characterized by trying to find enough security, sex, ''groovy" sensations, ego rushes, prestige, money, power and status."

-Ken Keyes, Jr.

"Majority of the people live in the past or in the future most of the time."

"Majority of the people run his or her life by the bad habits."

'' Be satisfied about the past, optimistic about the future and be happy in the present.''

''It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters,''

-Epictetus

'' Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the one who receive it.''

-Karl Menninger

'' Our intention creates our reality.''

-                                          Wayne Dyer

''Do not dwell in the past or dream of the future, be present.''

''Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat.''

-                    Socrates (469B.C-399 B.C.)

"The permanent thing in life is impermanence."

'' All truths are easy once they are understood; the point is to discover them.''

-Gallileo Galileo

“A Man is as old as his arteries”

''New truths go to three stages. First they are ridiculed, second they are violently opposed and then, finally, they are accepted as being self-evident.''

-Arthur Schopenhuer

“Human activity is dominated by the search for happiness”

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

''Discovery is seeing what everyone saw and thinking what no one thought''

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"How we think affects how we look and wise versa.”

"We reap what we sow within our own lifetimes."

"What you eat determines your state of mind and who you are."

Tao’s Words of wisdom

''The truth that can be told become untrue immediately.''

''The tao that can be told of is not the absolute tao.''

''Truth cannot be taught.''

''Truth is always realized in silence.''

''Through words, communication is not possible.''

'' What can be said cannot be true.''

''Truth cannot be expressed because it is an experience, existential experience''

'' Give a man a fish and you feed him a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a life time.''

-Lao Tzu (against words and language)

''If you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and the trees, you will be blossom; you will have your wings open in the vast sky.''

-Chuang Tzu

''Tao means being. It believes in this moment; it has no idea of future. If you can live in this moment, in purity, in silence, in spontaneity, then your life is transformed. Not that you transform it-Tao transforms it, the whole transforms it. You simply allow the river to take you to the ocean; you need not push the river.''

''Taoist masters only talk about ''the way.'' Tao means the way-they don't talk about the goal at all. They say; the goal will take care of itself; you need not worry about the goal.''

''The Taoist attitude is to go with life-to go all the way, without any conditions, Whenever life leads, go with it. You come from life; you are part of life, so how could life you? There is no need to be afraid.''

"The sage is occupied with the unspoken and acts without effort.

Teaching without verbosity,

Producing without possessing,

Creating without regard to result,

Claiming nothing,

The Sage has nothing to lose."

"To perform a selfless act one must let go of one's ego and pass into an altered state of consciousness-the state of doing without doing (wo wei)"

"To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things.''

-Zen master

“WISDOM is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all the getting, get understanding.”

-Proverbs 4:7

“The purpose of living is to prepare for the moment of death. By preparing for death, one learns how to live well.”

“If you want to know the quality of your life, examine the quality of your dreams.”

“Dreaming the life you want and then living the life your dream.”

“Out of desperation, we are forced to give up or give in.”

“There is no failure, only divine redirection.”

“Thing happens by accident.”

“When the heart is broken can the light enter?”

'' As you walk into nature let nature walk into you."

''A good teacher teaches the student that they already know the answer.''

''Caring is love and love is caring.''

“Change your dreams, change your life.”

“No body perfect accept it as it is.”

“Action speaks louder than words.”

“Food is for body, love is the food for the soul.”

“The level of happiness and success in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts

If man is raised as an animal he will behave as an animal, for man, “learns” to be human.”

''It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in the past that determines who you become.”

Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine ultimate destiny.''

-Anthony Robins

''You look as bad as you feel.''

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.''

                                -Albert Einstein

"Practice what you preach."

"A sage is one who has complete understanding of nature of things thereby has no emotion."

"The sage is occupied with the unspoken and acts without effort.

Teaching without verbosity,

Producing without possessing,

Creating without regard to result,

Claiming nothing,

The Sage has nothing to lose."

"An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.”

"How we think affects how we look and vice versa.”

"What you eat determines your state of mind and who you are."

"The permanent thing in life is impermanence."

"To die as youthful as we can but as late as we can."

-Ashley Montagu

"To perform a selfless act one must let go of one's ego and pass into an altered state of consciousness-the state of doing without doing (wo wei)"

You can live two months without food and two weeks without water, but you can live only a few minutes without air

-Master Hung Yi hsiang

"We reap what we sow within our own lifetimes."

“Whatever the people does, is the matter of survival and happiness.”

“Silence is golden.”

“Silence is of great value.”

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead."

--Julia Morgan,
American architect

“A sound mind in the sound body.”

“Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.”

Conrad Hilton

“To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.”

                              -Cicero

“Smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.”

                             -Herman melville

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

-James Baldwin

                                                  “The best vision is insight.”
                                                  -Malcolm S. Forbes

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”

-Will Rogers

"The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.”

-Earl Nightingale

“If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it.”

-Jeanne Louise Calment

“The level of happiness and success in your life

Depends on the quality of your thought.”

“Your beliefs become your thoughts

Your thoughts become your words

Your words become your actions

Your actions become your habits

Your habits become your values

Your values become your destiny.”

                                           -Mahatma Gandhi

“ No body perfect accept it as it is.”

“If you want to be loved then love.”

“ A life time without love is of no account

                                         Love is the Water of Life

                                         Drink it down with heart and soul.”

“Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.”

“The conventional wisdoms are not always right”

"Knowledge brings power to the people."

“We all seek happiness and do not want suffering.”

“Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.”

“Whatsoever happens happens.”

“What ever will be, will be.”

“The ultimate happiness is the inner peace.”

“Love is an emotional attachment to the good things of life.”

“It is our true nature to be peaceful until we disturb it.”

“The fully awareness is the foundation of the happiness.”

“Among the sounds, nothing is more beautiful than the sound of silence.”

“All life is one. Therefore respect all living things.”

“To do the right things is the most important in life.”

“In life there is always the right way and the not the right way.”

“The poor are rich, the rich suffer.”

“A picture worth a thousand words.”

“If you don’t like yourself, who else will like you.”

“Life is mean to enjoy to the fullest.”

“Lack of decision has been the cause of countless failure.”

“You get exactly what you visualize.”

“What you send out reverberates back to you.”

“Ninety percent of problems are humanly created.”

“What man thinks he become.”

“Discipline makes your mind stronger and one pointed.”

“The signs of a man of wisdom are a settled mind,

a steady mind and a clear mind.”

“Sacrifice is the law of life.”

“If you are not moving, you are dying.”

“You have to prepare yourself as if you will die tomorrow. If you do not die

tomorrow then prepare to live to be hundredth.”

“Your happiness is my happiness.”

“People suffer because they are ignorant of the true nature of the mind.”

-The Enlightened One

“The more you are afraid to die the sooner you will die.”

“A psychological law is that a stronger emotion will always nullify a weaker one.”

“Love without trust will never have a successful outcome.”

“Know yourself is a real key to happiness and good health.”

“The subconscious part of the mind hears at all times.”

“You are what you think you are.”

“Know thyself.”

-Socrates

“Whatever can fall apart is going to fall apart sooner or later.”

“Everything should exist in the right place, in the right way.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“No one will ever get out of this world alive. Resolve therefore to maintain a reasonable of values.”

“No mesh is as bad as delusion or misunderstanding”

-Lord Buddha

“What cannot be achieved through efforts”

-Lord Buddha

“If you picture success, this power brings it. Picture failure you will have it.”

“Do the thing you love to do, and do it for the joy and thrill of it.”

“We cannot give anything that we do not possess.”

“As you give out so will you receive?”

“To give is non-attachment.”

“Experience is the only real teacher.”

“Things are not opposed but part of the whole.”

-Taoism

“Everything is supposition.”

“In everything that happens there must be cause and effect. “

“If you can assure yourself, then you have refuge to yourself.”

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of Strength.”

“How you manage your mind determines how things turn out.”

“Staying in the moment with compassion.”

“Even a thousand mile journey starts with a single step.”

“Early to bed, early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

-Benjamin Franklin

“As a well spent day bring happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

“Neither knowledge nor ignorance can be used as measurement. The only measurement is abandoning of defilements. To reach nibbana one needs only to abandon defilements. After having abandoned defilements, one can reach nibbana”

“Whoever indulges in visible objects, in sound, in smell, in taste, in touch and in mind- objects is considered to indulge in suffering. I claim that whoever indulge in suffering cannot escape from suffering”

-Lord Buddha

Shackles of life

“Children are shackles around the neck. Wealth and property are shackles on the legs. Wives are shackles on the wrist.”

“No enemy can do as much harm as diseases do.”

“Love of anything or anyone cannot be more than self- love.”

“No force is stronger than the force of karma.”

“No knowledge is nobler than insight from meditation.”

-Lord Buddha

How to behave yourself

“Make your mind like the land. If the mind is always treated like the land, no mind-object can affect it.

When people litter the land with clean or dirty things, body waste and spit, the land neither minds nor is it offended.

If you can constantly keep your mind in this way

no mind-object can dominate it.”

-Lord Buddha

“Malice toward none, compassionate toward all.”

“When we have our body and mind in order, every thing else will exist in the right place, in the right way.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“What happen to you now is due to the karmic action. What can you do is do the best of your ability right here and right now.”

How to behave toward people

“First let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy.

To ignore them is not good; that is the worse policy. The second worst is

trying to control them.”

“To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control

him”

-Shunryu Suzuki

How to behave toward women

“It is best not to see women at all.

If you have to look at or see them, do not speak to them. It is better not to have conversation with them.

If conversation cannot be avoided, be mindful. Be well in charge of your consciousness. Control your sense-gates and speech. Do not allow pleasure and delight to control your mind.”

-Lord Buddha answered to the monks

About giving advice

“Silence is golden.”

“It is to one that feels that I teach Dhamma, not to one that does not feel.”

-The Awakened One

“Be chary of giving advice. Wise men don’t need it & fools won’t heed it.”

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

About Buddhism

“To study Buddhism is to study yourself.”

“It is wonderful to see Buddha nature in everything and in each individual!”

-Lord Buddha on the day of enlightenment

“It is to one that feels that I teach Dhamma, not to one that does not feel.”

About Human nature

“Love of anything or anyone cannot be more than self- love.”

-Lord Buddha

“In our everyday life our thinking is ninety-nine percent self–centered”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“We always have animal instinct in us.”

“We almost always pre-just people.”

“Love and care is the part of human nature.”

“What happen to you now is due to the karmic law. What you can do now just do the best you can, right here and right now.”

“The fear of unknown is as bad as the fear of death.”

“In life we must follow certain rules so we can live with nature in harmony.”

“The kindness is one of the greatest virtues of mankind.”

“To appreciate your human life is as rare as soil on your fingernail.”

-Lord Buddha

“It is your birthright as a human being to be healthy, happy and whole.”

“To be successful in life we must learn to cultivate the sixth sense.”

“The fear is man’s greatest enemy.”

“To believe is to accept something is true.”

“We create what we believe. What we think and feel we create.”

“Man is what he thinks all day long.”

“You lose what you criticize.”

About the Zen life

“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“Always to keep our beginner’s mind.”

“In the beginner mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”

“Everything should exist in the right place, in the right way.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“When we have our body and mind in order, every thing else will exist in the right place, in the right way.”

“First let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good; that is the worse policy. The second worst is trying to control them.”

“To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“All sentient beings have Buddha nature.”

“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature”

The mind

“Make your mind like the land. If the mind is always treated like the land, no mind-object can affect it.

When people litter the land with clean or dirty things, body waste and spit, the land neither minds nor is it offended.

If you can constantly keep your mind in this way no mind-object can dominate it.”

-Lord Buddha

“Malice toward none, compassionate toward all.”

“When we have our body and mind in order, every thing else will exist in the right place, in the right way.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

“How you manage your mind determines how things turn out.”

“If you picture success, this power brings it. Picture failure you will have it.”

“The subconscious mind is the servant of the conscious mind.”

“The subconscious mind never grows old.”

“Habit is the function of the subconscious mind.”

“Nothing can disturb you but your own thought”

“Frustration is due to unfulfilled desire.”

“The law of life is the law of belief.”

“To belief is to accept something is true.”

“As the man thinking in his heart so is he.”

“Passions grow from the will, the will grows from thought and imagination: when both are calmed, there is neither sensualism nor transmigration.”

-Lord Buddha

“From the passions arises worry, and from worry arises fear, away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.”

Lord Buddha

“Don’t carry the past and don’t ask for the future—just be herenow. And then there is no-mind. And the body simply follows that no-mindness.”

“Happiness is when mind is not.”

“The mind is lord. When the lord is calmed, the servants will of themselves be yielding.”

Aging

“Age is the dawn of wisdom.”

“You old as you feel.”

“The secret of youth is love, joy, inner peace and laughter.”

“The subconscious mind never grows old.”

Human’ health

“Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone’s major source of wealth without it, happiness is almost impossible.”

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest in his patients in the care of human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

-Thomas A. Edison

“You are what you eat, so let food be your medicine”

-Hippocrates

“The more you eat the sooner you will die.”

“If you stop moving you are dying”

“If you do not use it you will loose it.”

“Good hydration is at the foundation of good health.”

Three best things in life

“The first best thing is never to be born. The second best thing is to die immediately after birth. And the third best thing is to die as soon as possible.”

-Mark Twain

The words of wisdom of Dalai Lama

“We all seek happiness and do not want suffering.”

“Cherish others more than yourself.”

“External peace is impossible without inner peace.”

“Care about others at all times. If you can not help others, do no harm.”

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”

“The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one’s own comfort and happiness.”

“Follow the three Rs:

Respect for self

Respect for others

Responsibility for all your actions.”

“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”

“Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.”

“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”

“Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.”

“A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.”

“Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.”

“As long as hatred dwells in the human mind, real peace is impossible.”

“External peace is impossible without inner peace.”

“Just your success by what you had to give up in order getting it.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

“When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.”

“The intimate relationships based purely on attraction are almost always unstable.”

“To foster inner awareness, introspection and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayers.”

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.”

“The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.”

The words of wisdom of Jesus

“Unless you become like small children, you will not enter into my kingdom of God.”

-Jesus Christ

The words of wisdom of Osho

“Take life joyfully, take life easily, take life relaxingly, and don’t create unnecessary problems. Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because your take life seriously. Seriousness is the root cause of problems. Be playful, and will not miss anything—because life is God.”

“Live this moment as totally as possible.”

“Never try to imitate anybody, never be an imitator; that is suicide.”

“Accept yourself as you are.”

“Don’t start hankering and longing for some future ideal, idea, perfection. Drop all ideals and live here-now.”

“Sex is the material part of love.”

“Life can mean only one thing and that is constant adventure.”

“The religion begins with psychological freedom.”

“Man wants to be happy, hence he creates misery.”

“Happiness is here and now.”

“The moment you desire for happiness, you have moved away from the present. The desire for happiness simply shows that you are not happy right at this moment. The desire for happiness simply shows that you are miserable being.

So the first thing is not to dream, not to project, to become more aware. The more aware you become, the deeper the cause you can see. Simply to watch how desire arises. How it create misery.”

“Love is natural kind of meditation. And meditation is supernatural kind of love.”

“When one couple moves into the realm of orgasmic experience. Time stops. There is no thought in the mind for a moment. It is all empty and silent.”

“Death is the only certainty in life.”

“Death is always close by. It is almost like your shadow.”

“If you understand death your life will become intense and total.”

“Awareness is desirlessness.”

“A thing is a thought, a thought is a thing.”

“The person who lives without any adventure, live without fear but also without happiness.”

“The enlightened or awakened person is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. Who simply accepts life as it is.”

“Mind consists only the known.”

“Mind means the past. Mind knows nothing of the present. The present is always unknown.”

“The moment you encounter the present, the mind becomes useless.”

“The mind will create many doubts.”

“Mind lives on the doubts.”

“In mind questions arise like leaves grow on trees.”

“Mind teaches you to be calculating, to be cautious.”

“It is on the middle path we find peace, Buddha nature, and true nature.”

“Be like water, don’t be like a rock.”

“You are born alone, you will die alone, you have to live alone.”

“Try to hear your own inner voice and follow it.”

“For any austerity you need only a little practice.”

“The root problem of all problems is mind itself.”

“No-thinking is a must if you want to be completely freed from sin, freed from crime, freed from all that goes around you—and that is the meaning of Buddha.”

How to live lovingly

About life

“Take life joyfully, take life easily, take life relaxingly, and don’t create unnecessary problems. Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because your take life seriously. Seriousness is the root cause of problems. Be playful, and will not miss anything—because life is God.”

“Life can mean only one thing and that is constant adventure.”

“Happiness is here and now.”

“Live this moment as totally as possible.”

“Never try to imitate anybody, never be an imitator; that is suicide.”

“Accept yourself as you are.”

“Don’t start hankering and longing for some future ideal, idea, perfection.

Drop all ideals and live here-now.”

“The moment you desire for happiness, you have moved away from the present. The desire for happiness simply shows that you are not happy right at this moment. The desire for happiness simply shows that you are miserable being. So the first thing is not to dream, not to project, to become more aware. The more aware you become, the deeper the cause you can see. Simply to watch how desire arises. How it create misery.”

“The person who lives without any adventure, live without fear but also without happiness.”

“In this world, it is very difficult to find a happy person, because nobody is fulfilling the conditions for being happy. The condition is that one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.”

About love

“Love is natural kind of meditation. And meditation is supernatural kind of love.”

About sex

“When one couple moves into the realm of orgasmic experience. Time stops.

There is no thought in the mind for a moment. It is all empty and silent.”

About death

“Death is the only certainty in life.”

“Death is always close by. It is almost like your shadow.”

“If you understand death your life will become intense and total.”

-Osho

The key for longevity

“Eat the right things, right amount, do the right things, live with the present, be contented and empty your mind by meditation.”

Yoga

Yoga means getting yourself one-pointed and training your mind to do one thing at the time.

Real enlightenment means quieting and then transcending both conscious and subconscious mind and recognizing, or realizing, your own peace, joy, and eternal bliss. And that is Yoga.

Meditation