The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
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.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The lie is a condition of life.
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.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.