You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
That’s a waste of time. If you really understand Zen. You can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.