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“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.”

“Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.”

“Unless I am myself, I am nobody.”

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

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

“Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.”

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”