Quotes

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.