"The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are."

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Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Henepola Gunaratana

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“If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.”
“A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”
“Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.”

Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1991). “A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, Beacon Pr
“If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.”
“To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood...”

Source : Sir Henry Newbolt, “Clifton Chapel”
“Children read more when they see other people reading.”
“Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.”
“You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.”

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