By taking time to enjoy moments of solitude you make time your friend.
You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Theres nothing you can know that isnt known.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In about 1970, I decided I was an engineer. I continued to do work that was almost entirely mathematical, but I realized I was interested in building things, and that made me an engineer!
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
In any situation, where there is inner peace and love, life changes for the better.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
The Tibetan Buddhist tradition teaches us to view all sentient beings as our dear mothers and to show our gratitude by loving them all. For, according to Buddhist theory, we are born and reborn countless numbers of times, and it is conceivable that each being has been our parent at one time or another. In this way all beings in the universe share a family relationship.
