Wisdom Quotes

"I understand now why you love your rose. It is the time spent on the rose that matters."

"You puzzle me, little prince. Why have you come to this planet?"

"One cannot be master of what one does not understand."

"The essential is invisible to the eye, but visible to the heart."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Confine yourself to the present moment."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of wants."

"Objective judgment, now, at this very moment."

"We must think logically to survive."

"Trust no one on this island."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

"The meaning we give to our suffering can actually transform the suffering."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Despair is suffering without meaning, but suffering can lose its despair when it has meaning."

"Meaning can be discovered in three ways: by what we give to life, by what we take from the world, and by the stance we take toward unavoidable suffering."

"The will to pleasure and the will to power are far less meaningful than the will to meaning."

"I believe in the mercy of a quick death."

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

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

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

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

"You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, yet you are not evil when you sleep."

"And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind, a caution against the stumbling stone."

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

"Do not lose yourself in the thicket of other people's theories."

"The selfish smile and the cunning handshake are but the beginning of endless curse."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, things that don't at all matter when we're dying."

"When you go back to square one, it is not embarrassing, it is enlightening."