We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Some things are up to us and some are not: our judgments, desires, and actions are up to us; our bodies, possessions, and reputation are not.

People are disturbed not by things themselves, but by the opinions they hold about things.

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

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

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Forever is composed of nows.

Like a star: without haste, but without rest.

The best is the enemy of the good.

When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.