If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Desire is the very essence of man.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
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.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
