If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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