We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.