In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.

Nothingness...there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed...

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.