Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
There are no ordinary moments.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
The root of suffering is attachment.
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own...
Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.