If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
Time wounds all heels.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
