2. I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
Mastering others
is strength.
Mastering yourself
is true power.
Lao Tzu
3. Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The more man meditates upon good
thoughts, the better will be his world
and the world at large.
Confucius
4. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what
we think. When the mind is pure,
joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand
battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from
you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
5. Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble
be sufficient for the day.
Jesus Christ
“Blessed are those who hunger and
thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.”
Jesus Christ
6. Good actions give strength to ourselves and
inspire good actions in others.
Plato
The greatest wealth is
to live content with little.
Plato
7. The roots of education are bitter,
but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Good habits formed at youth
make all the difference.
Aristotle
8. Freedom from the desire for an answer is
essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The flowering of love is meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
9. The value of a man should be seen in what he
gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others
is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
10. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be
content in our everyday life and share with the
people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran
Life without love
is like a tree
without blossoms
or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
11. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism or
in the darkness of destructive
selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. Let us fill our hearts with our own
compassion - towards ourselves and
towards all living beings.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation can help us
embrace our worries, our
fear, our anger; and that is
very healing. We let our
own natural capacity of
healing do the work.
Thich Nhat Hanh
13. Goodness is the only investment
that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
What lies behind us and what lies
ahead of us are tiny matters
compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
14. A strenuous effort must be made to train
young people to think for themselves
and take independent charge
of their lives.
Anne Sullivan
“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all
over again, and you will grow stronger until you have
accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with
perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”
Anne Sullivan
15. Our prime purpose in this life is to
help others. And if you can't help
them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not
something ready made.
It comes from your
own actions.
Dalai Lama
16. If the structures of the human mind
remain unchanged, we will always end up
re-creating the same world, the same
evils, the same dysfunction.
Eckhart Tolle
People don't realize that now is all there
ever is; there is no past or future except
as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
17. Failures are finger posts on the road to
achievement.
C. S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is,
seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
18. You cannot always control what goes on outside. But
you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
If you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
19. The End
May coMpassion
and WisdoM
Lead Us To
enLighTenMenT
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin