Rasheed Ogunlaru famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
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Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
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Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.
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It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
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Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.
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Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
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You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...
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The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it.
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Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
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By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
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My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
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The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
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Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you
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The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?
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How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it.
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In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
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Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
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There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.
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Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.
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Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them.
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In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.
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We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.
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You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
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If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you
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There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
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You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools
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What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
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Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
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Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.
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Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
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Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
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Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.
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It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that
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The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
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The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
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While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
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Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
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First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice
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The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free
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Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
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I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
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Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
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Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...
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Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow
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A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.
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Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
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Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.
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You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
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There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.
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All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
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Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.
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People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
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Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.
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The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.
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Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
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There is no question- love is the answer
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Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
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It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.
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Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating
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On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%
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The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.
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Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.
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Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.
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If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.
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Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
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Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
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The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present
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