You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
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.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
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.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
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.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.