"We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up."

-- Tenzin Palmo

#Growing Up Quotes #Giving Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.”
“AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.”
“Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.”
“I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.”
“I have to believe in myself. I know what I can do, what I can achieve.”
“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.”
“I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.”

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