You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Resist much. Obey little.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.