Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
The only real laughter comes from despair.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
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.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
A man is literally what he thinks.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.