Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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.
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.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
