Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love, she gives it an eternal form.

If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.