Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.