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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change read more
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Patience means self-suffering.
Patience means self-suffering.
People want riches; they need fulfillment.
People want riches; they need fulfillment.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
