You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

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.

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.