empowerment & inner transformation…
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Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of that determination fades in time. The moment you feel that is when you should make a fresh determination. Tell yourselves, "OK! I will start again from now!" If you fall down seven times, get up the eighth. Don't give up when you feel... Continue Reading →
When stones are cast at good people, when the rights of honest, hard-working people are trampled, we should be angry! When anyone anywhere around the world discriminates against another, we should burn with indignation! Raise your voices! Nothing suits the authorities better than the apathy of the people, than their feeling of powerlessness and their... Continue Reading →
“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?” - W. Clement Stone
"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders." -Maya Angelou back
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” - C.S. Lewis Don't ask me why but for some strange reason this quote always makes me think of this quote: When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished... Continue Reading →
“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.” - Unknown (but I believe this quote is from a song by a band called Reed).
Daisaku Ikeda from June 18th World Tribune January 19th Address Excerpts: Many of you here may fondly remember the novel I Am a Cat by the Japanese author Soseki Natsume. For a change of pace, let me talk a little about it. […] We also find this passage in Soseki’s novel: “All studies undertaken by... Continue Reading →
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes." [.] "What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life." [.] "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search... Continue Reading →
Mr. Toda once said to a young woman, "If you aren't going to create happiness in the place were your are now, where else are you going to find it?" We must develop inner strength. We need to transform ourselves and become people who aren't defeated by life's struggles. The English poet John Milton wrote,... Continue Reading →
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali
The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers. Juliette Gordon Low, American pioneer in the education of women and children and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
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