Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

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.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.

When I was young I used to listen to everything.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Many a good man I have seen go under.