I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.

Kindness is like snow – It beautifies everything it covers.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Butterflies come to pretty flowers.

"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

The soul is here for its own joy.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?

You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. 

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

“It is ridiculous to think that somebody else can make you happy or unhappy.”

“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.”

“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

“If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.”

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.”

“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ”

“In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.”

“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”