Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
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.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Be curious, not judgmental.
