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481) “Old age is no place for sissies.” –Bette Davis, USA

482) “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” –Plato, Greece

483) “Fearing is only as deep as the mind allows.” –Japanese Proverb

485) “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson, USA

487) “Bravery is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” –Michel de Montaigne, France

494) “The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” –Joseph Addison, England

495) “Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues because unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.” –Samuel Johnson, England

496) “Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.” –Marcus Aurelius, Rome

457) “The more we know, the better we forgive. Those who feel deeply feel for all living beings.” –Madame de Stael, France

458) ‘The Dalai Lama has said that if compassion does not extend to ourselves, it is not complete. If we see ourselves as equal to everyone else, it is easier to love others. And when we understand that others’ longing for happiness is as great as our own, it is easier to wish all sentient beings well.’

459) “Lack of proper recognition of your own value is always harmful and can lead to a state of mental, emotional and spiritual paralysis.” –His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

464) “Compassion has been achieved when we have cast off the shackles of cherishing ourself more than others are this a real, rather than verbal, longing that all beings may be liberated from suffering.” –Je Gampopa

467) “By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves.” –Thomas Browne, England

471) “Out of the thought of love comes the thought of compassion, and from the thought of compassion the thought of enlightenment emerges.” –Atisa, Tibet

Awareness

397) “I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind and stand now in the spirit’s silence, free.” –Sri Aurobindo, India

401) “We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.” –Henry David Thoreau, USA

413) “When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” –Patanjali, India

Inner Peace

429) “I attribute my sense of peace to the effort to develop concern for others.” –His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet

432) “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.” –Marcus Aurelius, Rome

435) “You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.” –Henry David Thoreau, USA

Emptiness

437) “What are the imperfections that defile the heart and mind? Desire, ill-will, anger, revenge, vanity, contempt, arrogance, envy, avarice, deceit, conceit, negligence, sloth, doubt and agitation.” –The Buddha

443) “All beings arise from space, and into space they return; space is indeed their beginning, and space is their final end.” –The Upanishads