Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.
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