In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.