You ought not to fear that over which you have no control.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

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