Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
Be Formless, Shapeless Like Water. Water Can Flow or It Can Crash. Be Water, My Friend...
Who knows himself is enlightened.
You Know Who You Are And You Know What You Want. The Answers You Are Looking For Are Within You.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Beings
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