There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
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.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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 know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
A precedent embalms a principle.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.