If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.