You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know nothing about it.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to kip out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

Learnin how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Do something which arouses happiness in your own bones.