We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.



The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change.



When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile



Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth.



Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.



Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.



There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking. There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.



To me nothing ever happens. There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable; a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it. Nothing can take me out of it, no torture, no calamity.



I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.



Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.



You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.



I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can…And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same…I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.



Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.



Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.



There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.



…Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.



If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession



Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.



Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.



To see things in the seed, that is genius.