Murray’s Quotes
Selfishness and serenity do not hold hands; serenity and kindness do.
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More important than a bottom line,
More precious than a silver mine
Is goodness — yielding peace of mind.
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Life has a bounce-back. Whatever you give to others (or don’t give), you give to yourself. What you give to yourself alone, you give to nobody.
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When I point my finger at thee,
Three are pointing back at me.
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Avoid self-pity. In feeling sorry for myself for more than a brief period, I unintentionally build myself a prison. I close the blinds and lock and double-bar the door. But the same lock and bars that keep others out, keep me in — in the dark dungeon of despair. And until I take the key, which lies in my own hand — opening the door to others — I’m my own jailer.
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To really be you,
Keep harmony
In what you think, say and do.
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Jesus did not teach or establish a religion, with a set of beliefs requiring mental assent, but a way to live in which everything (including religion) bows to compassionate love — mercy in workboots.
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When I was trying to get rich, I had more fabulous failures than stunning successes. Is making smiles even more important than making money?
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Self-centeredness and contentment don’t go together. In fact, they’ve never met. They’re more like parallel one-way streets going in oppposite directions. I can only get onto Contentment Avenue by getting off the Selfishness Expressway and turning onto Goodness Boulevard. Whichever way you turn onto Goodness Boulevard goes directly to Contentment. That’s because Goodness Boulevard is really a huge circle crossing every pleasant road you’d ever wish to travel on.
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I doubt the human mind even could believe oneself forgiven unless were regularly forgiving others. For wouldn’t that be a contradiction? — something the human mind can’t handle. It wouldn’t compute.
