Bodhidharma Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

The mind is the root from which all things grow; if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

All know the way; few actually walk it.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions and evils, is rooted in the three poisons: Greed, anger and delusion.

Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.

Whoever knows that nothing depends on anything has found the way. And whoever knows that the mind depends on nothing is always at the place of enlightenment.

Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and Buddhahood the grain.

A Buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking.

Every suffering is a Buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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Mata Amritanandamayi Math(Amma) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.

Peace  of mind is the real wealth.

The more kindness we give, the more it increases.

If your actions are done with love, there will be no place for tiredness or boredom. In love everything remains eternally new and fresh.

Love is our true essence.

Know this great truth that the joy of the world's contents is a small reflection of bliss in your own soul.

Compassion is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

It is the care and patience we show in small things that lead us to great achievements.

The power of the mind is wasted through a multitude of thoughts, but if we focus the mind on just one thought, the mind will become a great power.

The universe is like a vast network. If it is shaken at one place, the vibrations are felt across the entire network.

Amma doesn't believe in a God sitting up in heaven. God is in each and every one of you, in everything and everyone in creation.

If the average person is like an ordinary post along an electric power line, a person who performs spiritual austerities is like a power transformer.

If you forcefully open the petals of a budding flower, you will not be able to enjoy its splendor and perfume. Only when it blossoms naturally will its loveliness and fragrance unfold. Likewise, you need to have patience to enjoy the beauty in life.

Lending a helping hand to a neglected soul, feeding the hungry, giving the sad and dejected a compassionate glance, this is the language of love.

As we get older, we lose our enthusiasm and joy. We become dry and unhappy. Why? Because we lose our faith and innocence. Somewhere inside each of us, a child’s joy, innocence and faith lie dormant. Rediscover them.

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Epictetus Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it.

The essence of philosophy is that, a man should so live that, his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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Epictetus Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is most difficult of all things.

No man is free unless he is the master of himself.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes.

If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life.

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.

Working within our sphere of control, we are naturally free, independent, and strong. Beyond that sphere, we are weak, limited, and dependent.

Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist.

Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.

Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don’t blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations.

Be free from grief; not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

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The Greatest Salesman in the World Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

The rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.

Failure will never overtake we if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

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Rework (Jason Fried) Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

You don’t need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.

When you treat people like children, you get children’s work.

If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.

There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not f*ck or sh*t. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast.

If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis.

We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.

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ReWork (Jason Fried) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Accounting is a department. Marketing isn’t.

Start a business, not a startup.

Working more doesn’t mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.

Ideas are cheap and plentiful. The real question is how well you execute.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

You’re better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.

Get the chisel out and start making something real. Anything else is just a distraction.

Policies are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual.

For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough.

Estimates that stretch weeks, months, and years into the future are fantasies.

Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition.

The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they’ll never happen.

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The Lessons of History (Ariel Durant & Will Durant) Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias.

The only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

There is no humorist like history.

The historian will not mourn because he can see no meaning in human existence except that which man puts into it.

War is a nation’s way of eating.

Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character.

It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that “you can’t fool all the people all the time”, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality.

To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions.

Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically.

Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.

War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

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Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt) Quotes Collection

Economics is, at root, the study of incentives.

If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.

The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns.

Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control.

Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.

If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.

If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.

An expert must be bold, if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties.

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Sri Aurobindo Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Life is life, whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

The atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

The practice of yoga brings us face-to-face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Live according to nature, runs the maxim of the west; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This, first we ought to determine.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it, till it is shattered by fresh genius.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Hinduism, gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit.

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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Do not read history. Read biography, for it is life without theory.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Silence is the mother of truth.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

He who gains time gains everything.

Justice is truth in action.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Success is the child of audacity.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure, it is in decay.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Self-knowledge has no end; you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

An idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

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