Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.