It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

In success, knowledge - In failure, lessons.

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.