We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.