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"If they weren't good for you in 2015, they won't be great for you in 2016. Let them go."
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"It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic."

"People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words."

"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing."

"Don't participate or allow yourself to be dragged into other people's dramas, complaints, or gossip."

"I never have been involved in politics."

"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."

"Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money."

"Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people."

"Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul]."

"One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts, one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation]."
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"Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones."

"It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?"

"In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don't give up!"

"Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self."

"Don't lower your standards to keep anyone, if they're not making you happy, it's time to find someone who does."

"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!"

"Appreciate what you have while you still have it because one day you won't."

"It's a lot harder to get someone out of your life than it is to let them in, so take your time!"
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