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Inspirational Quotes

“What a curious power words have.” -Unknown


I have chosen the quotes of the following authors for the sole reason that it points to the same truth as the one I wish to share. That being said, I do not necessarily “agree” with their whole approach.

Authors


Adyashanti
​Alan Watts

Buddha
Dalai Lama
First Nations Proverbs

Idries Shah
Jessy Desjardins
Jesus
Lao Tzu
Leonard Cohen

Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Mother Teresa

Nisargadatta Maharaj
Osho
Rumi
Thich Nhat Hanh
Tibetan Proverbs
Wayne Dyer
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“If no one irritates you, on whom would you practice patience?”
​- 
Tibetan Proverbs
“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”
- 
Adyashanti
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
- 
Osho
“Love is a decision, not an emotion.”
​- 
Lao Tzu
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
​-
Rumi
“Perfection and imperfection are not found in the world but in the viewer’s eyes.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“To be free of fear is to be full of love.”
​- 
Adyashanti
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”​
​- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
​- Rumi
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
- 
Buddha
“Instead of looking for what you don’t have, find what you have never lost.”
​- Nisargadatta Maharaj
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
​- Lao Tzu
“Without Body, you can’t be killed; without possessions, you can’t be stolen; without mind, you can’t be disappointed.”
​- Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
- 
Buddha
“Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.”
​- Osho
“Enlightenment is like a wild cat. The more we chase it, the more it runs away. But if we sit peacefully in silence, it will come to us.”​
- 
Jessy Desjardins
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
​- Wayne Dyer
“Real meditation is not about control; it’s about letting go of control.”
- 
Adyashanti
“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
​- Rumi
“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.​”
​- Leonard Cohen
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
​- Lao Tzu
“The Truth speaks through silence, expresses through creation and exists in the experiences.”
- 
Jessy Desjardins
“Respect all life. Take only what you need. Use all that you take.”
​- First Nation Proverbs
“The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.”​
​
- Mahatma Gandhi
“The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.”
​- 
Adyashanti
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.”
- Wayne Dyer
“It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.”
​- Martin Luther King
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
​- 
Buddha
“Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Ignorance is acting without realizing it.”
​- 
Jessy Desjardins 
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“If a problem can be solved it will be, if it cannot be solved there is no use worrying about it.”
​- 
Dalai Lama
“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.”
​- Lao Tzu
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
​- 
Osho
“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
​- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
- Dalai Lama
“How can you live tomorrow when only today exist?”
- 
Jessy Desjardins
“There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
​- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“You only lose what you cling to.”
​- 
Buddha
“I tell you the truth. The person that believes in me will do the same things I have done. Yes! He will do even greater things than I have done.”
​- 
Jesus
“Love is beyond the duality of giving and receiving.”​​​
​- 
Jessy Desjardins
“Spirituality is a Self-centred art.”​​
​- 
Jessy Desjardins
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
​- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?”
​- 
Adyashanti
“The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.”
​- 
Dalai Lama
“You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.”​
​- 
Jesus
“Life is a game, don’t take it too seriously but don't diminish the experience either.”​
​- 
Jessy Desjardins 
“Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“There are two days in the year that we cannot do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.”
​- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“We are the key keeper of the chest that contains our happiness and freedom.”​
​
- Jessy Desjardins 
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
​- 
Lao Tzu
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“Life is like an act, our human nature being our mask, our soul being the actor.”
​- 
Jessy Desjardins 
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“We learn in silence and master in chaos.”​
​- 
Jessy Desjardins
“You are not an observer, you are a participant.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”
​- 
Osho
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
​- Rumi
“Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.”
​- 
Lao Tzu
“If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide.”​
​- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.”
​- 
Osho
“Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed.”
​- 
Osho 
“We are not humans with a soul, but a soul experiencing human life.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
 
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
- 
Mahatma Gandhi
“With your window facing North, do not expect the sun.”
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.”
​- 
Dalai Lama
“The wise sees his faults. The fool talks about those of others.”
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“Being and doing are two opposites that can be practiced simultaneously.”
​- Jessy Desjardins 
“I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”
​- Osho
“We can catch a wild horse that has escaped, but we can’t take back harsh words that have been spoken.”
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“It’s when we let go of the need for power, that’s we understand the power of letting go.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“I do not own a thing, but I have so much to share.”​​
- Jessy Desjardins
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
​- Lao Tzu
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
​- Rumi
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”​
​- Mahatma Gandhi
“The wise pretends to ignore what he knows. The fool pretends to know what he ignores.”
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“Spirituality is not about getting somewhere or trying to get there, it’s about understanding and realizing that we are already there.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
​- Lao Tzu
“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.”
​- Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Repression is harmful even if it's for the right reasons.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“We do not know happiness if we haven’t endured misfortune.”
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“In true love, you attain freedom.”
​- 
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love says “I am everything.” Wisdom says “I am nothing.” Between the two, my life flows.”
​- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"What is the point of meditating on compassion if one does not help someone in need?"
​- 
Tibetan Proverbs
“To take spirituality too seriously is to miss out on what it really teaches us.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“Love is to mastery, what fear is to control.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
"In the morning, if the child is not happy, he does not start playing. In the evening, if the child is not upset, he does not stop playing."
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“The Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.”
​- Osho
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”
​- Rumi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”​
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Repeating 'I have to wake up' ends up making us fall asleep."
​- Idries Shah
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”
​- 
Wayne Dyer
“True wealth is not the one we own, but the one we share.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
"Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening."
​- Idries Shah
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”​
​- Mahatma Gandhi
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
​- Rumi
“I cried at birth, I will die laughing.”
​- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"It takes a lamp to look for a lamp."
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“Without love, nothing can truly be solved.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
​- Rumi
“Bigger the Ego = Bigger the lack of self-love.”
​- Jessy Desjardins
“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.”
​- Wayne Dyer
"Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore."
​- Idries Shah
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
​- Rumi
"It is better to life for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep."
​- Tibetan Proverbs
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
​- Wayne Dyer
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”​
​- Mahatma Gandhi
“It is neither necessary nor possible to change others. But you can change yourself and discover, then, that no other change is needed.​”
​- Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
​- Rumi
“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.”
​- Alan Watts
“Peace begins with a smile.”
​- Mother Teresa
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