310 quotes found
“I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, see...”
“I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.”
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you...”
“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”
“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
“All I know is that I do not know anything”
“Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.”
“Dont be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”
“It comes from within.”
“Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams - Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyRealit...”
“It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over the years. You don't even notice it creeping in. It happens, tri...”
“There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from p...”
“It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”
