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Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#compassion-wisdom #enemy #inspirational #interaction #kindness

أرى الزواج وكأنه عملية خياطة لشخصين معآ, والطلاق أشبه بقطع أحد الأوصال, لذا يستغرق شفاؤه وقتآ طويلآ. وكلما طال الزواج أو كان الإستئصال أقسى, استغرق الشفاء وقتآ أطول ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#inspirational #humor

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill. ↗

— Jacob M. Braude

#humor

Do you want to know the world? Then look at it closely. Do you want to like it? Then look at it from afar. ↗

— Ion Luca Caragiale

#humor

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes. ↗

— Liza M. Wiemer

#motivational #perseverance #inspirational

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness. ↗

— Joe Hill

#music #inspirational

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#on-writing #poet #poetry #quotes #r-m-engelhardt

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#motivational #productivity #inspirational

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#life-lessons #mr-moscowitz #suffering #inspirational