Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
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.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.