We are What our Thoughts have Made us; so Take Care About What you Think. Words are Secondary. Thoughts live; they travel very Far.

Encouraging Quotes on Avoiding Criticism and Low Feelings

• “A man Interrupted one of the Buddha’s ongoing lectures with a floods of abuses.
  Buddha waited until he had finished and then asked him a simple question :
  “If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?”
  Man Said – “To the one who offered it”.
  Then, said the Buddha, “I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself.”
• “Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.”
  – Unknown
• “Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.”
  – Steve Goodier
• “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
  – Winston Churchill
• “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
  – Abraham Lincoln
• “I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.”
  – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
  – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself”
  – Mark Twain
• “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
  – William Arthur Ward
• “Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
  – Neil Gaiman
• “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
  – Dale Carnegie

Encouraging Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi:

• You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. – Mahatma Gandhi
• Nobody can hurt me without my permission. – Mahatma Gandhi
• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. – Mahatma Gandhi
• Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. – Mahatma Gandhi
• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. – Mahatma Gandhi
• When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence. – – Mahatma Gandhi
• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem. – Mahatma Gandhi

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