The entire cosmos is one single family.

Truth alone triumphs, never falsehood.

Knowledge is the supreme wealth: thieves cannot steal it, kings cannot confiscate it, and sharing it only causes it to multiply.

The mind alone is the cause of human bondage, and the mind alone is the cause of liberation.

Trees do not eat their own sweet fruit; rivers do not drink their own waters; the life of the noble is poured out for the welfare of others.

You have a sovereign right over your labor, but never over the fruits thereof.

As gold is tested in four ways—by rubbing, cutting, heating, and hammering—so is character tested by conduct, lineage, virtue, and action.

Humility is the supreme ornament of knowledge; charity is the ornament of wealth; truth is the ornament of speech.

A drop of water falling on red-hot iron evaporates into nothing; the same drop falling on a lotus leaf shines like a radiant pearl.

The fragrance of sandalwood spreads only with the wind, but the fragrance of a righteous life spreads in all directions.

The lion waits for no coronation ceremony in the jungle; he rules the forest by his own sovereign valour and strength.

Time does not pass away; it is we who are passing away.

Silence is the safest ornament of the ignorant in an assembly of the wise.

Speak the truth, speak what is pleasing, but never speak an untruth to please, nor a harsh truth out of malice.

Just as a chariot cannot roll upon a single wheel, human destiny cannot advance without effort joined to destiny.

Patience is the invincible shield in the hand of the righteous; what can the fire of the wicked do to one who stands on ground that cannot burn?

He who has conquered his own restless mind has conquered the three worlds.

Contentment is the supreme treasure; there is no wealth on earth that surpasses a peaceful mind.

The swan extracts only the pure milk, leaving the muddy water behind.

Friendship with the righteous grows like the afternoon shadow, lengthening as the sun sets.

Even a tiny earthen oil lamp can dispel the pitch darkness of a thousand-year-old cavern.

Forgiveness is the supreme strength of the mighty, and the highest ornament of the peaceful.

The physical body is the sacred foundation and instrument for the performance of all righteous duty.

Greed destroys every noble virtue, as an untamed forest fire consumes dry grass.

In the unshakeable presence of non-violence, all surrounding hostility naturally ceases.

Knowledge without daily practice is like carrying a heavy bundle of sandalwood on a donkey's back: he feels the weight, but knows nothing of the fragrance.

The sun rises red in the morning and sets red in the evening; so too the truly noble remain unchanged in prosperity and in adversity.

One who exercises sovereignty over their own senses fears nothing under the sun.

Truth is one; the wise call it by many names.

Where the vulnerable, women, and mothers are honored with reverence, there the divine rejoices.

Duty performed with absolute detachment leaves behind no residue of sorrow or regret.

As the honeybee gathers nectar from thousands of blossoms without bruising a single petal, so must the sage walk through the village.

Wealth acquired through deceit and unrighteousness burns like a fiery brand in the house of the thief.

The earth sustains all creatures—the saint and the sinner—without a single complaint.

Speech that causes no agitation, that is truthful, pleasing, and beneficial is the true penance of the tongue.

Do not mourn for what has vanished into the past, nor boast of what you have gathered today.

A true warrior bears his battle scars as the sacred jewelry of honor.

He who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, can never harbor hatred for anyone.

The moon does not withhold its cool radiance from the cottage of the outcast.

From untruth lead me to truth; from darkness lead me to light; from death lead me to immortality.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.