Spirituality and Self Help

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharal Nehru

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. — Thomas Fuller

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

After the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box. — Italian Proverb

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate — Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live — Elbert Hubbard

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. — Plutarch

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins? — Edgar Alan Poe

To live is like to love–all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. — Buddha

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. — Buddha

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. — Jim Rohn

Either you run the day or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. — Jim Rohn

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. — Jim Rohn

A human being is a deciding being. — Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor E. Frankl

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. — Wayne Dyer

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people. — Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. — Carl Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. — Carl Jung

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace. — Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost — Charles Caleb Colton