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.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
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.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.