Siddhartha

"I have been a fool, but I am learning."

"To go forward you must be willing to let go."

"I have learned that the heart knows things the mind cannot comprehend."

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."

"I am going into the world now, to learn suffering."

"A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"In solitude, we find ourselves most truly."

"I learned that perfection is not the goal; understanding is."

"To accept everything is to transform everything."

"I am no longer seeking; I am living."

"I have learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, to strive, to suffer, to fail and to despair in order to become childlike again"

"A man can do nothing without the simpler things, without clothing, without food, without a bed to sleep on"

"Everything that exists is beautiful already"

"I am learning to listen to this river, to this voice, I seem to learn from it that I should love the water"

"I can think. I can wait. I can fast. These are my strengths"

"I have become wiser and know more and more, but the happiness, the cheerfulness never grew with it"

"One can indulge the flesh or one can mortify it; both are paths, but the middle way is what leads to enlightenment"

"To be able to wait, to be able to fast - this is already great"

"I am glad to be alive and to sin and to suffer"

"Perhaps all the things that here deceive me, that I hate and fight against, are good and that I only need to love them"

"Everything returns except suffering"

"I sought meaning in the world but found only deception until I learned to listen"

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you, but only if you stop running from it"

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

"I have experienced all the stages. I have descended to the deepest place and felt the greatest pain"

"Every sin already carries grace within it"

"I wanted to experience everything myself, to learn from everything myself"

"In this moment, I do not seek the All, do not seek for salvation far away"

"I have learned that there is something in the depths of my being, in the depths which the Brahmans call Atman"

"I learned to love the water and the sky and the sun"