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"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
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"Inflate yourself with a genuine passion always. This makes it possible for you to bounce back when you fall. The football is loaded with air and no sooner does it hit the floor than it bounces back again!"

"The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation."

"You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims."

"In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going."

"You are only greater than what you overcome."

"When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind."

"In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious."

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken."

"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."

"Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening."
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"We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living."


"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer."


"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."


"Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it."


"Your body belongs to the earth. In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do anything they want to themselves. But your body is not only yours. Your body belongs to your ancestors, your parents, and future generations. It also belongs to society and to all the other living beings. The trees, the clouds, the soil, and every living thing brought about the presence of your body. We can eat with care, knowing we are caretakers of our bodies, rather than their owners."


"Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."


"You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy."


"We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant ancestors; and we have mineral ancestors. Our human ancestors are still very young. Human beings appeared very late in the history of life on Earth. Our animal ancestors are still there within us. The reptile, the fish, and the ape are still in our blood. Not only were they part of us in the past, but they continue to exist within us. Just look deeply into your cells. We see that we are the whole history of life."


"When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own."
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