Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.