He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
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.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
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.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Resist much. Obey little.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.