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When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
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introspection
karma
self-improvement
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Confucius |
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Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
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buddhism
destiny
happiness
humanism
inspirational
karma
peace
self-reformation
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Daisaku Ikeda |
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it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
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buddhism
destiny
happiness
humanism
inspirational
karma
peace
self-reformation
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Daisaku Ikeda |
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Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
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buddhism
destiny
happiness
humanism
inspirational
karma
peace
self-reformation
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Daisaku Ikeda |
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Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, "There is always a day of reckoning." The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits--ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human's life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.
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ethical
ethics
fulfillment
identity
inspiration
inspirational
inspirational-quotes
karma
life-lessons
meaning
meaning-of-life
personal-development
psychology
psychology-spirituality
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Donald Van de Mark |
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
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death
deserved
hell
karma
lestat
lestat-de-lioncourt
louis
punishment
remorse
vampire
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Anne Rice |
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A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
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absolute-happiness
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destiny
humanism
inspirational
karma
peace
self-reformation
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Daisaku Ikeda |
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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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karma
past
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
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buddhism
destiny
happiness
humanism
inspirational
karma
peace
self-reformation
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Daisaku Ikeda |
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Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate
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karma
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Rick Riordan |
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"I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around."
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Jim Butcher |
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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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consequences
karma
pay-it-forward
reciprocity
responsibility
spiritual-guidance
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Iris Murdoch |
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I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it.
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hope
karma
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Katie McGarry |
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And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.
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karma
life
meaning
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
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karma
parenthood
wrath
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.
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determinism
fate
geopolitics
history
just-desserts
karma
nations
politics
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Malcolm Lowry |
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Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.
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destiny
karma
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Jon Kabat-Zinn |
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...we lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword, sprang to her feet and charged the dragon head-on while I mostly just wondered who or what I'd offended in a past life that this one was peopled by dragons. Except I didn't have any past lives, so apparently I'd offended somebody in life and was facing instant karma. That didn't really improve anything, in my ever so humble opinion.
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karma
past-lives
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C.E. Murphy |
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He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?
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behavior
ethics
karma
punishment
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Irving Stone |
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"My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? "It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. "You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole. "It is why we are drawn to babies . . ." He turned to the mourners. "And to funerals."
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birth
connected
cycle
death
funeral
karma
life
love
marriage
spirit
we-are-one
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