You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
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.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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.
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.
