49 quotes
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
“Settle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“All life is yoga”
— Sri Aurobindo
“One action is stronger than a thousand words.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“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
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice”
— Anton Chekhov
“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible”
— Dalai Lama
“We are what we repeatedly do. Meditation is therefore not an act but a habit.”
— Sakyong Mipham
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
— Aristotle
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindness”
“If you don't do it now, it will be harder later.”
— Anonymous
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
— Huang Po
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”
— Brother David Steindl-Rast
“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
“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
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion and if you want to be happy practice compassion”
“How you do anything is how you do everything so practice compassion in the smallest moments”
— Cheri Huber
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Action comes before thought.”
“Happiness is not something that comes to us. It is something we cultivate through practice.”
— Matthieu Ricard
“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
“All skills are perfected through practice.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”
— Dilgo Khyentse
“Your first ten thousand photographs are your worst”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
“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
“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory”
— Swami Satchidananda
— Unknown
“When we practice generating compassion we can expect to experience our fear of pain”
— Pema Chodron
“Knowledge without practice is useless.”
— Kant
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“The hardest part of anything is the beginning.”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“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
“The point is not to become a buddhist the point is to become a buddha”
— Tenzin Palmo
“Have you eaten your rice porridge Then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practice”
— Joan Halifax
“You cannot have an up without a down and you cannot have love without practicing compassion”
— Alan Watts
“If you practice an art be proud of it and make it proud of you”
— Philip Glass
“Mindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
— Wang Yangming
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