One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!

Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.

Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Me neither, ” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”“I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, ” Amelie said.

Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.