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