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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
- Sathya Sai Baba
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
- Pope Francis
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary.Thoughts live; they travel far.
- Swami Vivekananda
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
- Robert Brault
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