The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.