We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.