Siddhartha

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Everything that exists is beautiful already"

"The world is beautiful, but it has a disease called man"

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

"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"

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

"To accept everything is to transform everything."

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

"In solitude, we find ourselves most truly."

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

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

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

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

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

"Each of us must find our own path."

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

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

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

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

"I sought the secret of myself."

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

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

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

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

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness."