What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to the individual to discover what that should be.

Meaning must be found and cannot be given; it cannot be invented, it must be discovered.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.

By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche.

Human existence cannot be meaningless. As long as we have breath, as long as we are conscious, we are responsible to answer the demands of reality.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. Therefore, we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to the whole group; the individual personality remains essentially unpredictable.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

Freedom is the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

Decisions, not conditions, determine who a human being is.

Even under the most humiliating conditions, the inner freedom of the soul cannot be taken away.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but the last of the human freedoms.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

By his love, a person is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but ought to be actualized.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers: The truth that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self.

Whether or not the beloved is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

Love is an act of seeing what is unique and irreplaceable in the other person.

To love someone is to enable them to realize their highest possibilities.

In love, a human being encounters another in their unrepeatable wholeness.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.

Tragic optimism means that one is, and remains, optimistic in spite of the 'tragic triad': pain, guilt, and death.

It is not suffering itself that destroys human beings, but suffering without purpose.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task.

Even a helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.

No one can relieve another of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph; he may turn his predicament into a human achievement.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system.

A door of happiness opens outward; anyone who tries to pull it inward only shuts it more tightly.

Like an eye that sees everything except itself, the healthy human soul looks outward toward reality.

To live is to be questioned by life, and to answer is to live responsibly.

Man is responsible for recognizing the demands that reality makes on him at every single moment.

We do not invent the meaning of our life; we detect it.

Each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve.

The existential vacuum is a widespread phenomenon of the twentieth century. Many people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Boredom is now bringing to psychiatrists more problems to solve than distress is.

People have enough to live by, but nothing to live for; they have the means, but no meaning.

Sunday neurosis is that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. The result is the feeling of ultimate and total meaninglessness.

When the will to meaning is frustrated, the will to power or the will to pleasure rushes in to fill the void.

No therapy can be truly complete if it treats the human being merely as a biological mechanism rather than a spiritual being capable of transcendence.

Psychotherapy has too long viewed man as a creature driven by base impulses; it is time to recognize man as pulled by higher values.

The feeling of meaninglessness is not a disease, but the most human of all achievements—the awakening of conscience.

Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish.

Conscience can be understood as the organ of meaning. It can be defined as the capacity to sniff out the meaning in each situation.

A man's character is shaped not by what happens to him, but by the attitude he takes toward what happens.

In the concentration camps, we watched our comrades behave either like animals or like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which is actualized depends on decisions, not on conditions.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

There are two races of men in this world, but only these two: the 'race' of the decent man and the 'race' of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere.

No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of 'pure race.'

To be responsible means to be selective, to distinguish between the essential and the inessential.

A person who has a why can bear almost any how because his conscience illuminates the path ahead.

The voice of conscience does not command from outside; it calls from the deepest ground of personal being.

To live without values is to drift without a rudder in an uncharted ocean.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Humor allows a human being to put a distance between himself and his predicament, rising above his sorrow if only for a few seconds.

To smile in the face of misfortune is to assert the supremacy of the human spirit over external circumstance.

Self-detachment—the ability to laugh at one's own neurotic fears—is the first step toward psychological healing.

Paradoxical intention teaches us to confront our fears directly with a smile, stripping anxiety of its catastrophic power.

The human capacity for self-detachment enables man to look at himself, judge himself, and even laugh at himself.

He who learns to laugh at his symptoms has taken the first step toward leaving them behind.

A healthy mind does not demand the absence of trouble, but possesses the humor and resilience to face it.

Through humor, the soul reclaims its dignity even in the shadow of tragedy.

Usually, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he has salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys, and also his sufferings.

Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be wiped out. Having been is also a kind of being, perhaps the most secure kind of being.

Instead of envying the young for their possibilities, the old person can look with pride on the realities he has achieved, the values he has actualized, and the suffering he has borne.

The transitoriness of our existence in no way makes it meaningless. But it does make up our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transient possibilities.

Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of present potentials: which of these will be condemned to non-being and which will be actualized?

Every moment holds thousands of possibilities, but we can only choose one to make real; all the others are lost forever.

Once an action has been committed, it is saved into eternity. It cannot be altered; it belongs to the irrevocable sanctuary of the past.

Do not fear the passage of time; fear only the squandering of the opportunities it offers.

The present moment is the golden seam where potentiality is woven into the tapestry of the permanent past.

Death gives life its true seriousness and urgency. If we were immortal, we could postpone every decision forever.

Man has the capacity to rise above his biological, psychological, and sociological conditions—and to defy them.

The defiant power of the human spirit is the ability to turn a tragedy into a personal triumph, an obstacle into an opportunity for moral greatness.

A person does not merely adapt to conditions; he actively creates his destiny through how he interprets them.

No situation is devoid of the opportunity for greatness. Even in the depths of sorrow, the soul may manifest nobility.

What is called for is not to endure fate passively, but to shape our attitude toward it with heroic resolve.

The human spirit is not determined by circumstances; it is revealed by how it confronts them.

Every human being is a sculptor, chiseling his own character out of the marble of hardship.

To say 'yes' to life is not to deny its sorrows, but to embrace them as the canvas upon which courage is painted.

In the final analysis, living is nothing other than taking responsibility for finding the right answer to its problems and fulfilling the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

Everything can be taken from a man but the unassailable sovereignty of his inner choice; in that choice lies his eternal freedom.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.

Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar on the neural paths.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points; do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it.

When the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new 'set' to the brain.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

A tendency to act only becomes ingrained when the act is repeated in physical reality.

Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Habit simplifies the movements required to achieve a given result, makes them more accurate and diminishes fatigue.

Our nervous system grows to the modes in which it has been exercised.

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.

An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.

Every thought is part of a personal consciousness, always changing, sensibly continuous, and interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The greatest effort of the human will is the effort of attention.

To sustain a representation, to hold it steady before the mind against distracting ideas, is the sovereign victory of the moral will.

Human beings have a tendency to perceive only what accords with their pre-existing interests.

Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.

Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence.

It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Our minds are not passive mirrors; they carve out reality according to our human purposes.

The deepest thing in our nature is this benevolent whisper: that reality is more than what appears to the senses.

We notice only what we have names for, and pass by the rest unseen.

A mind that cannot hold an idea steadily before itself is at the mercy of every transient impulse.

Whatever holds the attention controls the action.

The stream of thought is the primary reality of our inner life; all theories are secondary abstractions.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneity of cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Refuse to express a passion, and it dies. Count ten before venting your anger, and its occasion seems ridiculous.

Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand, sit all day in a moping posture, sigh, and reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers.

There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this: smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key.

A sorrow which has found physical expression in wholesome activity is already half conquered.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

The passion for peace of mind is one of the deepest instincts of the human heart.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Give up the futile fight against the inevitable; yield to reality and find your power within it.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is indeed the conduct it dictates or inspires.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible.

There are cases where a fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming.

In the ascent of a mountain, your belief that you can leap the chasm is the very factor that produces the spring in your muscles.

Refuse to believe, and you hesitate; hesitate, and you fall.

In the battle of life, belief is not an intellectual luxury; it is an active weapon.

Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and puts each one to work.

Any idea upon which we can ride, any idea that will carry us prosperously from any one part of our experience to any other, is true for just so much.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

Ideas become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relation with other parts of our experience.

A philosopher is just a man who thinks in an unusually obstinate way.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

To know the truth requires a willing surrender of preconceived prejudices before the court of practical experience.

Doubt is an unstable equilibrium; the human mind longs for the solid ground of conviction.

Better by far to risk being deceived than to forfeit all possibility of truth through morbid dread of error.

A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those kinds of truth were really there, would be an irrational rule.

We must live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Live out the active hypothesis; life will reveal whether your ground was firm.

The greatest thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present: each as he sees himself, each as the other sees him, and each as he really is.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

To be appreciated is the food that sustains the dignity of the spirit.

The unclouded breast conceives no terror of the coming days; it knows that tomorrow will be met as today has been.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Believe in the best, work for the best, and expect the best; and character will follow in your footsteps.

Every thought has a bodily consequence; to cultivate serene thought is to build a healthy organism.

The trailing clouds of glory are never completely dispersed from our consciousness.

True peace of mind does not come from the absence of storms, but from knowing yourself sovereign over the ship.

We must be willing to pay the price of admission to life, and that price is the risk of sorrow and disappointment.

To refuse to choose is itself a choice, and often the most cowardly choice of all.

He who has learned to accept hardship without bitterness has achieved the summit of psychological freedom.

Our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

The ultimate weapon of the soul is its capacity to decide what it will worship.

Live out your convictions with heroic energy; the world will make way for the person who knows where he is going.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain many uncharted territories there.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of characters; even that of disinterestedness.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.

Passions are the only orators that always convince; they are like an art of nature that never fails.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.

We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only saw all the motives which produced them.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as streams lose themselves in the sea.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

We easily forget our faults when they are only known to ourselves.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting them in others.

Self-love increases or diminishes the good qualities of our friends in proportion to the satisfaction we receive from them.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we imagine.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Old men love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set bad examples.

Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in our reprimands to those who commit faults.

We reprimand others not so much to correct their errors as to persuade them that we are exempt from them.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Humility is often only a feigned submission, which we use to bend others to our will; it is an artifice of pride.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all.

Flattery is a counterfeit currency which only circulates through our vanity.

It is as easy to deceive oneself without perceiving it as it is difficult to deceive others without being found out.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

Pride does not wish to owe, and vanity does not wish to pay.

We are never so easily deceived as when we think we are deceiving others.

It takes greater virtues to bear good fortune than bad.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they used to acquire it.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

The desire to appear clever often prevents us from becoming so.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he has the strength to be bad: all other goodness is most often only sloth or lack of will.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

We forgive so long as we love.

There is in the human heart a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

The duration of our passions depends no more upon ourselves than does the duration of our lives.

Passions often engender their opposites: avarice sometimes produces prodigality, and prodigality avarice; one is often firm from weakness, and daring from timidity.

We have more strength than will; and it is often to excuse ourselves in our own eyes that we fancy things are impossible.

If we had no weaknesses, we should not take so much pleasure in observing those of other men.

Jealousy is in some sort just and reasonable, since it tends only to preserve a good which belongs to us, or which we think belongs to us; whereas envy is a fury which cannot endure the good of others.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There is more self-love than love in jealousy.

We are ashamed of having been deceived by our enemies and betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content to be so by ourselves.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.

True friendship proves itself not in sharing happiness, but in sharing the burdens of sorrow without resentment.

The greatest effort of friendship is not to show our own faults to a friend, but to let him see his own.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Gratitude is with most people only a strong secret desire to receive greater benefits.

Almost all the world takes pleasure in paying small debts; many show gratitude for moderate benefits; but almost everyone is ungrateful for immense ones.

Pity is often a perception of our own misfortunes in those of other people; it is a clever foresight of the evils into which we may fall.

Constancy in love is an eternal inconstancy, which causes our heart to attach itself successively to all the qualities of the person we love.

It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.

Self-love is the love of self, and of all things for self; it makes men idolaters of themselves, and tyrants to others if fortune gives them the power.

There are reproaches that praise, and praises that slander.

A wise man benefits more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

True courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul that raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the sight of great dangers produces.

Most men expose themselves to danger enough in war to save their honor, but few are willing to expose themselves as much as the success of the enterprise requires.

Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Fortune and caprice govern the world.

Nature creates ability; fortune brings it into play.

We should often be sorry if our wishes were granted.

Moderation has been made a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console mediocre people for their lack of fortune and merit.

Moderation in good fortune is only apprehension of the shame that attends upon intoxication with success.

The calm or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the vast affairs of life as on a commodious or disagreeable arrangement of little things.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer blame that is useful to them over praise that betrays them.

We are never so ridiculous through the qualities we have as through those we pretend to have.

A genuine man is not one who boasts of virtues, but one who is never surprised to discover his own weaknesses.

The supreme mastery of life is to recognize our own illusions before they crush us.

We are more easily governed through our vices than through our virtues.

To know a man, observe what he does when he thinks no one sees him.

He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without all men is much mistaken; but he who thinks that men cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they had no good qualities at all.

Magnanimity despises everything in order to obtain everything.

The most subtle folly is produced by the most subtle wisdom.

Old age is a tyrant that forbids, under pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

Few people know how to be old.

The passions of youth are not more contrary to salvation than the lukewarmness of old age.

It is more necessary to study men than books.

The great flaw of penetration is not that it fails to reach the point, but that it goes past it.

To be too much dissatisfied with oneself is a weakness; to be too much satisfied with oneself is a stupidity.

We confess our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the opinion of others.

The pleasure of love is in loving, and we are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.

There are few people who are not ashamed of having loved each other when they love no longer.

Most women weep for their lovers not because they loved them so well, but to appear more worthy of being loved.

We should gain more by letting ourselves be seen as we are than by attempting to appear what we are not.

Truth does not do so much good in the world as its appearance does evil.

Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

We take more pains to persuade others that we are happy than we do in trying to be so ourselves.

It is easier to appear worthy of the positions one does not hold than of those one does.

Fate never seems so blind as in the eyes of those whom she does not favor.

The intellect is always the dupe of the heart; when vanity whispers, reason obeys.

To love truth with all one's soul requires having unmasked every comforting lie of the ego.

The ultimate wisdom is to see the human comedy with gentle eyes, knowing that our own heart plays its part upon the stage.

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.