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Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles
John Marks Templeton

1 "When we truly understand that no one can make us think or feel anything unless we give them permission, we begin to understand the vastness of our freedom. No person or circumstance has the power to change that truth."

2 "Love has the patience to endure the fault we cannot cure." J. Jelinek

3 "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands."

4 "Shakespeare wrote, 'There is a destiny that will shape our end, rough hew it how we will.' This statement seems to mean that there may be an ultimate goal, or a divine plan, established for each person who comes into this world."

5 "There is in reality one Mind….This Mind is the life, intelligence, power, and creativity in the entire universe."

6 "Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life."

7 "Every time we hold our tongue instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience for another's faults, show a little more love and kindness; we are helping to stockpile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world." Constance Foster

8 "Love, founded on truth and not on someone's mood, knows by its own fires of devotion how to make calamities serve a useful purpose."

9 "The true universal, 'higher' self within us is an individualized center of God-consciousness."

10 "Love is the ideal and the dream, in some manner of expression, of every person who lives, for in the Creator's Love were our souls conceived and in Love lies our destiny to express."

11 "Love is the 'spiritual glue' that holds everything together."

12 "Everyone on the face of the globe is worthy of being loved."

13 "Since the beginning of time, prayer, in some form, has been observed in almost every culture recorded and studied. The desire to attune one's self toward a higher point of view is an innate part of the human soul."

14 "To be a happy and useful person, it is important to understand and practice the Laws of Life. These laws are simply the set of rules by which we should live. They come from a vast array of sources – the major Scriptures of the world; various schools of philosophical thought, both ancient and modern; storytellers, such as Aesop; scientists, such as Isaac Newton; and from various artists and historians – to name a few."

15 "In 'Man's Search for Meaning', Victor Frankl tells of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp. He reflects on the irony that he never felt so free as he did during that dreadful period. How could that be true? Even though all obvious freedoms had been taken away from him and he was living in constant threat of sickness, torture, and death, he discovered a depth of freedom inside of himself that he had never before experienced. We are free spirits, and our minds are not bound to anything unless we think we are."

16 "Through the ages, the wise and thoughtful among us have said that there is good in everything and everyone if we just take the time to look for it."

17 "Look around you. Find an avenue where you can offer the gift of yourself."

18 "You can begin now to understand that people on 'the other side' of the world are just like you and me – they only want to be free to be happy and useful."

19 "All conditions and circumstances in affairs and body are attracted to us to accord with the thoughts we hold steadily in consciousness."

20 "Without the Divine Being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail." Abraham Lincoln

21 "Just as a hologram is made up of numerous pixels – each one containing all of the information that can be found in the total image – so each person may be a tiny particle of life, containing all the data that is present in the sum of total existence."

22 "We always have a choice. We can let the garden of our life grow wild and unattended until it fills with weeds, or we can take up the proper tools and tend to our garden until we create a place of unimaginable loveliness."

23 "Socrates believed in a divine principle, expressed through an inner voice that directs our actions along the path of morality. He taught us to explore our thinking and behaviors that are unworthy of us."

24 "The Laws of Life work for the highest good of all."

25 "In our uniqueness and diversity there is a deep unifying, underlying unity that moves in and through all people."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite