If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
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.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.