Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to face yourself despite fear."

"Change is constant, but you are unchanging. Rest in the unchanging, and change loses its power to disturb."

"True education teaches you to question your own mind. All other education is mere information gathering."

"Knowledge accumulated without wisdom is like water in a broken vessel. It leaks away."

"Music is the language of silence. The best music is the sound of one's own true nature."

"Nature reflects perfectly the nature of the Self. The Self is nature, conscious and aware."

"Friendship is the recognition of the same consciousness in different forms. Real friendship is eternal."

"Family relationships are the closest mirrors. Love them fully, then transcend the sense of separation."

"Happiness is not in possessions or achievements. It is in the peace of being who you are."

"Success measured by external standards is failure of the spirit. True success is self-realization."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing what you do not know. False wisdom claims to know everything."

"Life asks nothing but your attention. Give it fully, without judgment or resistance."

"Love expands when given away. The more you share love, the more you have."

"In truth, there is no past and no future. There is only the eternal present moment."

"Peace is not something to attain. It is your natural state, always present beneath the mind's noise."

"The path winds in circles. Not because the destination is far, but because you keep walking away from it."

"Faith is not belief in something outside yourself. It is trust in the consciousness that you are."

"The ultimate power is the power of silence, the power of being rather than doing."

"Money is neutral. Your relationship to money shows your relationship to freedom."

"Health follows naturally when the mind is at peace and the heart is full."

"The adventure of life is in discovering that you have never truly been born and will never truly die."

"Your imagination is limited only by your beliefs. Change beliefs, and imagination becomes infinite."

"Technology is a tool of the restless mind. The peaceful mind needs no tools."

"History is written by those who mistake temporary forms for permanent truth."

"Justice is not in the courts but in the heart that has transcended judgment."

"Patience is the natural expression of one who knows that all is unfolding as it should."

"Kindness toward yourself is the foundation of kindness toward all beings."

"Strength is not in muscles or weapons, but in the unshakeable knowledge of your own nature."

"Fear becomes powerless when you realize what you truly fear does not exist."

"Surrender your sense of doership, and watch how perfectly life arranges itself."