Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.
You are not your mind.
As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.
In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Die before you die and find that there is no death.