- "Life is not about speed but direction."
- "There are no inherently bad people. Everyone believes that, myself included. I don’t doubt the existence of virtue. And yet people bare their fangs when it seems they can profit. People will rationalize their own behavior whenever they become tainted with evil; they’re not supposed to be evil. In order to preserve their own twisted integrity, the world becomes twisted. Someone you praised as “cool” until yesterday is “stuck up” today; someone you respected as “smart and knowledgeable” is now scorned as someone who “looks down on bad students”, and “energetic vigor” becomes “annoying and overly carried away”.
- "In essence, language accounts for a mere 30% of human communication. The other 70% is made up of information collected from eye movements and other body language. With that, even a loner who never takes part in conversation can pull off 70% of what we consider communication."
- "The important thing is to take part." Famous words spoken by Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin during a speech. However, this quote tends to be frequently misused and serves as kind of a threat to force participation. There are tons of wild-goose chases in this world, y'know. If the most important thing is to take part, then surely one could find meaning in not taking part as well. And if everything's worth experiencing, then there's little doubt that the feeling of not experiencing something is, in itself, worth experiencing. In fact, you could even call it a valuable experience to not experience something everyone else does."
- "Righteous action requires righteous intent. You can't do the right thing unless you set your mind to do it. If the inability to do the right thing causes you to suffer, you're aware of the fact you're not trying to do it. There are many reasons why one may not try to do good. A myriad of fears which might inspire hesitation. You can blame it on another person, or society as a whole. You can even blame it on the age we live in or the cards you were dealt. But hear me, those who are not doing the right thing must admit to themselves it's not they cannot do it but that they will not do it. All righteous people decide to do right and then they do it. The steps must be taken in that order. Worrying about the second step while you're still in the first is the height of calamity."
- "Life is a cruel teacher, it gives you the test first and the lesson later."
- When you’re watching a sunset, someone on the other side of the world is watching the same sun rise."
- "You're not going to get answers about the non-physical (consciousness) by applying logic. Logic is only for what's physical. This is why all your questions have precise answers and guesses from who found them. It's the Yogis who found them many millenniums ago. The Vedas talk only about sounds and energies. Talk to any genuine mystic and you will get all your answers. But answers won't please you unless you subjectively experience them. For that you have to go beyond your logic. So don't mediate, be meditative. You can't know infinity by counting your way to it. The only way is to dissolve your self (essentially your mind) and just be the piece of throbbing life you are, your body is an instrument to realize that infinity. For millenniums, yoga has been there and helping humans do exactly that."
- "At the point where 0 and 1 cross is calculation that is of miscommunication."
- Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
- “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
- “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
- “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
- “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
- "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
- “He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
- "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
- "In a hospital, you can find someone experiencing the best day of their life, the worst day of their life, the first day of their life, and the last day of their life all under one roof."
- "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb."
- "Jack of all trades, master of none. But better than a master of one."
- "Great minds think alike, but fools rarely differ."
- "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."
- "Letting go is one of the hardest things to do. We build people up. We build people up. We construct these vast, palatial temples in their honor and slowly or rapidly it becomes apparent they don't care. What you've got to realize is this is just a massive trick your brain plays on itself. Investment in lies often feels more important and real than any societal interaction because it's all our brain's own invention. Suffering is inevitable. You'll always be trading one kind for another. That's what we're sold as participants in this imperfect life. Be a person who loves wholly and universally, and your life will never be without love. And trust me, I love you and 100% certain you can find contentment. It's already inside you. It just needs a frame and a stud in the wall to hang it on. Find the frame. Find your stud."
- "I believe for every few people who genuinely want to do good, there are even more who want to take advantage of it. I'll take myself as an example. I really, really like helping people and don't mind getting up to help someone out and guide or even give the right answer. However, some people will get greedy and try to take advantage of me. I've had people outright tell me to give them the answers and actually expect me to. Unfortunately, others are crueler and calculating, like If I annoy and call her terrible things without the teacher noticing then she'll feel terrible and give me all the answers or Maybe if I make it look like she's the bad guy, then she'll get scared and give me the answers. All of these things are from my own experience and just my two cents. My point is that people will easily bare their fangs to their advantage."
- "The magic in choir is in the moment when you're so inspired by a performance that your eyes light up and you begin to realize you too have the potential to sing and inspire others as they did to you."
- "We hate in others what we see in ourselves."
- "We teach people how to treat us."
- "A good friend stabs you in the front, not the back."
- “The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In fact, it fails to tell us precisely what we need to know: What is harm and what is help? However, two things about the challenge of helping the helpless are clear. One is that, like beauty and ugliness, help and harm often lie in the eyes of the beholder--in our case, in the often divergently directed eyes of the benefactor and his beneficiary. The other is that harming people in the name of helping them is one of mankind's favorite pastimes.” ― Thomas Stephen Szasz
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