If we hold onto our own ideas of how things should be rather than accepting how they really are, we arise conflict in ourselves in the form of defensiveness.

Carl Rogers

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Let go of things that don't matter.

All that you are is the result of what you have thought. It is founded on your thoughts. It is made up of your thoughts.

Swami Sivananda

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these, hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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