You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Time wounds all heels.
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.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
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.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
