The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.