49 quotes
“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“Dont only practice your art but force your way into its secrets for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine through creativity.”
— Beethoven
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”
— Brother David Steindl-Rast
“If you practice an art be proud of it and make it proud of you”
— Philip Glass
“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory”
— Swami Satchidananda
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
— Unknown
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion and if you want to be happy practice compassion”
— Dalai Lama
“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
— Wang Yangming
“How you do anything is how you do everything so practice compassion in the smallest moments”
— Cheri Huber
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice”
— Anton Chekhov
“If you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace.”
— Ajahn Chah
“When we practice generating compassion we can expect to experience our fear of pain”
— Pema Chodron
“All life is yoga”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“If you don't do it now, it will be harder later.”
— Anonymous
“Knowledge without practice is useless.”
— Kant
— Dalai Lama XIV
“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”
— Milarepa
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The hardest part of anything is the beginning.”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“Have you eaten your rice porridge Then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindness”
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible”
“Mindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The point is not to become a buddhist the point is to become a buddha”
— Tenzin Palmo
“We are what we repeatedly do. Meditation is therefore not an act but a habit.”
— Sakyong Mipham
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peace. This of course would be an attachment to stillness.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“One action is stronger than a thousand words.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
“All skills are perfected through practice.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Your first ten thousand photographs are your worst”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
“You cannot have an up without a down and you cannot have love without practicing compassion”
— Alan Watts
“Action comes before thought.”
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“Settle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”
— Dilgo Khyentse
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“To practice any art no matter how well or badly is a way to make your soul grow. So do it with creativity.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
— Huang Po
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
— Gautama Buddha
“Compassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practice”
— Joan Halifax
“Happiness is not something that comes to us. It is something we cultivate through practice.”
— Matthieu Ricard
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