If you’re looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay...
It is our custom to say that someone is ‘lucky’ or ‘unlucky’ if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random ‘luck.’ Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.
People should never sit alone for too long when they’re crying.
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.
Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.
In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed...
One who is caught in thought loses one’s original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
A human being isn’t meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn’t just for work...
There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.
If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.
Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.
It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
We all have the potential to be better than we are.
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.