The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

We have three kinds of family 1.Those we are born to 2.Those who are born to us3.And those we let into our hearts ♥

Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

My diet is not unorthodox. I just eat like anyone else - that's just how I am. Everyone is different. It is just my metabolism that keeps me this slim.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.