He whose mouth is bitter with sickness finds bitter even the purest water.

Bury your existence in the soil of obscurity, for whatever sprouts from a seed never buried does not come to full fruit.

The soul is dyed with the color of its thoughts: such as your habitual thoughts are, such will the character of your mind be.

You can lose only the present moment, for that is all you ever have; and no one can lose what he does not possess.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Sit at the stream's edge and watch life flowing past: this one sign of the passing world is enough for us.

Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.

The perfect person's mind is like a mirror: it pursues nothing and refuses nothing; it receives, but does not hold.

Look not to the faults of others, to what they have done or left undone; look rather to your own deeds, done and left undone.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

To know that you know what you know, and to know that you do not know what you do not know — that is true knowledge.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.