Siddhartha

"Perfect understanding comes only through experience."

"I have learned that the world is good and beautiful and meaningful."

"To suffer is to live, and to live is to change."

"I have learned to listen with my whole being."

"The goal is within each moment."

"I can think. I can wait. I can fast."

"It is not for me to judge another man's life. I have enough difficulty in judging my own."

"I have had to experience so much trouble and have had to forsake and lose so much in order to learn that resignation and belief are not demands of weakness."

"I am no longer afraid of myself."

"When desire is no longer for him, when he is without desire, what then happens to him?"

"I cannot teach you anything except that which I know."

"I have learned that life itself is the teacher, not the teachings of men."

"I have lost myself many times, and each time I have found myself again."

"What is the self? Is it not always changing?"

"I have learned that unhappiness comes from desire, not from the lack of anything."

"I have become like the river—flowing, eternal, unchanging."

"I have learned that suffering is the path to enlightenment."

"I am neither young nor old, neither rich nor poor—I am simply awake."

"I have learned that loss is the price of growth."

"I have become the student of my own heart."

"I have learned that true freedom comes from acceptance, not resistance."

"I can think. I can wait. I can fast."

"I have had to experience so much trouble and have had to suffer so much to learn that I am like other people."

"The world itself does not laugh at us; we laugh at the world."

"I am like the sun when it rises: it must give light."

"A man can do nothing if he is not himself."

"I sought the secret of myself."

"A man who thinks can never be poor or destitute."

"In every truth, the opposite is equally true."

"Everybody can reach his goal, if he can think, if he can wait, if he can fast."