Great Quotes From the Peaceful RULER

Recently I discovered my name Frederick, in German, means Peaceful Ruler and while the only person I am a peaceful ruler over is myself I decided to titled this blog entry: Great Quotes from the Peaceful Ruler. If you decide you want to pass any or all of these original quotes onto others, please include my copyright notice. Thank you.

Great Quotes From the Peaceful RULER
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• When someone treats us unkindly we learn how to treat others with great kindness.
  
• Living today successfully would not be a burden at all if we could leave our past behind.

• Purpose, any purpose at all, large or small, that makes us happy, makes life worth living. Without purpose, there is no reason to live and then life becomes hard, very hard.

• Strangers can love you easier than family because strangers have no history with you that they can hold against you.

• Lavishing your children with unconditional love and acceptance once they leave the house is something that will make your children "forgive and forget" all the things you did wrong to them during their growing up years.

• Competition is not kindness, cooperation is.
• You are perfect in every way until you compare yourself with another.
• Only people who live in fear feel the need to do violence to others.

• Everything you see, read and hear makes a difference in your life and sometimes it is the smallest things that make the biggest difference.

• If every person treated themselves with great kindness, compassion, love and self-understanding, imagine how well they would treat other people.

• God allows us to suffer in order that we can grow in compassion and sensitivity towards the suffering of others. Suffering however is optional and not a requirement to become sensitive to the suffering of others.

• If we truly saw all others as our sisters and brothers, it would be much easier to create a world that works for everyone with no one left out.