A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
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.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
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.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
