If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.