Quotes
Quotes I’ve Picked Up Here and There
Quotes
1. Serve the tea. Practice common acts of generosity and humility, like serving tea to visitors in your home. Small acts require conscious intention to begin with but can become a habit in short order.
2. Show your teeth. To the Dalai Lama, to “show your teeth” means to smile authentically—no half smiles, no Mona Lisa–style ambiguity. The true smil
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But if you can make honesty and self-awareness your superpower, you will become happier, more empathetic, and more successful in all you do.
And as Shakespeare asserts in his comedy As You Like It, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man / knows himself to be a fool.”
Mufti Menk said, "Sometimes, just listening and not saying anything is the best answer. Remember that your silence can't be misquoted"
“When you change what you’re counting, you change what counts.”
-Kendra Adachi
I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.
-Unknown