A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.