Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

The only lasting truth is change.

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

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

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