The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

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.

The problem is that we are humans.

One of these days is none of these days.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

You become great by going small thing in a great way.