I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.