In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside you.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.