Gary Zukav Quotes

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be as a father, as a human being that matters to me.

Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am.

Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.