A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.