Proverbs that inspires - Part 2

1. From nothing you become sad, from nothing you become happpy, you are burning in the flame, but I will not let you out until you are fully BAKED, fully WISE, fully YOURSELF.-RUMI.                                                                                                                                
2. We may struggle to make peace with ourselves. We may experience tiredness or confusion. We may suffer without understanding, the roots of suffering, without knowing how to let it go, how to let it die its own natural death, why this is so? because the mind looks for safety and often, its first recourse is to try to distract itself- to forget. Its second is to rationalise poor conduct.we do this out of habit without awareness or understanding. - Ajahn Sundara.
3. Donot pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men!. Donot pray for tasks equal to your powers.Pray for power equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks.
4. Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy. But its very rare because most people are strategists. - Anita Brookner.
5. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervantly believe and upon which we must vigourously act.There is no other route to success. - Stephen A Brennan.
6. Our identification with suffering is very strong - we get sucked in to it and its really hard to pull ourselves out. We might think that as we practise the mind should really come together and be more peaceful, but thats not always the case.- Unknown.
7. Patience is the art of finding something else to do. - GROUCHO MARK.
8. Each soul is potentially divine. The goal of life is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external ( through physical sciences, technology and socio-political processes) and internal ( through ethical, aesthetic and religious procedure.
   Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy - by one or more or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion.Doctrines or domas or rituals or books or temples or forms are but secondary details. - Swami Vivekananda.
9. I cant give you the formula for success. But I can give you the formula for failure which is try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope.
10. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself and that person is not found to be found anywhere.You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.- Unknown
11. Being happy doesnt mean that everything is perfect, it means that you have decided to look beyound the imperfections. - Unknown.
12. Everyone think of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy.
13. There is magic in long distance friendships.They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is more profound. - Diana Cortes.
14. A friend is someone who understands your past believes in future, accepts you the way you are.- Unknown.
15. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having positive results. - Willie Nelson.