Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy meta physicians.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for
talent is genius.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
We all have been hurt and will be hurt again. But it is the choices we make on how to deal with that hurt that determines the quality of our life
There is only this moment... so enjoy it totally.
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
Contentment is a great strength. It comes when a person lives in honesty and simplicity. Contentment means we have overcome useless desires. It is said that you can discern a person's truth from their level of contentment.
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.
