Other people do not have to change
by Gerald Jampolsky

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Self Change Choice

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky

I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy

Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a higher court than courts of justice
and that is the court of conscience.
It supersedes all other courts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran

True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie