Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.
The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
Confine yourself to the present.
Spend your brief moment according to nature’s law, and serenely greet the journey’s end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.
Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.