In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Time wounds all heels.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.