The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Time wounds all heels.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
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.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
What can't be cured must be endured.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.