A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Time wounds all heels.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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 moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Appearances often are deceiving.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
