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Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
If your ideas aren’t working, look within yourself; if you are kind to people and they don’t reciprocate, take a look at your kindness. If you give people orders and they don’t follow them, take a look at your orders. If you pay respect to people and they don’t return it, take a look at your manners.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Think not rightly to examine yourself by looking only to your own inner motives and feelings, which are the hardest of all things to analyze if looked at in the abstract, and apart from outward actions. But ask, "Do I believe all that God teaches, and endeavor to do all that God commands?" For in this is the evidence of true love to him.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The Buddha says you can believe in your God and Buddha too. Your God is like a parent to you, his child. If you do something bad, he forgives you. Buddha has an adult-to-adult relationship with you. If you do something bad, you are accountable for your actions.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Every one of us is endowed with great mercy and compassion.
Harm | Joy | Mind | Misfortune | Misfortune |
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Much of the glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its mystery. - To understand everything we must be as God.
Censure | Praise | Superiority | Wisdom |
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
It is wise to yield a step through life, for yielding a step is really fundamental to improvement. Towards others, a measure of broad-mindedness really brings fortune, for benefiting others if fundamental to benefiting oneself.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
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Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Making friends requires a few measures of gallantry; cultivating true character needs a bit of innocence.
He who wants to kill a dog says that he has urinated against the mosque.
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Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
Competition | Global | Individual |
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas Szasz, fully Thomas Stephen Szasz
[Growing up] is especially difficult to achieve for a child whose parents do not take him seriously; that is, who do not expect proper behavior from him, do not discipline him, and finally, do not respect him enough to tell him the truth.
Action | Freedom | Responsibility | Self |
Thomas R. Kelly, fully Thomas Raymond Kelly
But whatever the earthly history of this moment of charm, this vision of an absolutely holy life is, I am convinced, the invading, urging, inviting, persuading work of the Eternal One. It is curious that modern psychology cannot account wholly for flashes of insight of any kind, sacred or secular. It is as if a fountain of creative Mind were welling up, bubbling to expression within prepared spirits. There is an infinite fountain of lifting power, pressing within us, luring us by dazzling visions, and we can only say, The creative God comes into our souls. An increment of infinity is about us. Holy is imagination, the gateway of Reality into our hearts. The Hound of Heaven is on our track, the God of Love is wooing us to His Holy Life. Once having the vision, the second step to holy obedience is this: Begin where you are. Obey now. Use what little obedience you are capable of, even if it be like a grain of mustard seed. Begin where you are. Live this present moment, this present hour as you now sit in your seats, in utter, utter submission and openness toward Him. Listen outwardly to these words, but within, behind the scenes, in the deeper levels of your lives where you are all alone with God the Loving Eternal One, keep up a silent prayer, "Open Thou my life. Guide my thoughts where I dare not let them go. But Thou darest. Thy will be done." Walk on the streets and chat with your friends. But every moment behind the scenes be in prayer, offering yourselves in continuous obedience. I find this internal continuous prayer life absolutely essential. It can be carried on day and night, in the thick of business, in home and school. Such prayer of submission can be so simple. It is well to use a single sentence, repeated over and over and over again, such as this: "Be Thou my will. Be Thou my will," or "I open all before Thee. I open all before Thee," or "See earth through heaven, See earth through heaven." This hidden prayer life can pass, in time, beyond words and phrases into mere ejaculations, "My God, my God, my Holy One, my Love," or into the adoration of the Upanishad, "O Wonderful, O Wonderful, O Wonderful." Words may cease and one stands and walks and sits and lies in wordless attitudes of adoration and submission and rejoicing and exultation and glory.
Enough | Faith | God | Greed | Heart | Humility | Imperialism | Little | Means | Smile | War | Will | Wise | God |
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
Advice | Body | Genius | Haste | Important | Life | Life | Literature | Man | Nothing | Perfection | Play | Pleasure | Popularity | Reason | Recreation | Wonder | Work | Think |
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.