The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.