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Wherein have you played the knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who of herself is a good lady, and would not have knaves thrive long under her?
All’s well that ends well yet,
Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses, and how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears!
To believe that happiness exists in a feverish ambition, rather than in a tender and simple affection, is to believe that the immensity of the sea will more readily quench thirst than the pure, clear water of a humble fountain.
It is our prerogative as spiritual beings, that we can rise above the feeling of the moment, above all that is isolated and individual.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Be a lamp unto yourself.
It’s wiser being good than bad… It’s fitter being sane than mad.
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
How much confusion of thought comes from our interest in self, and from our vanity when thinking “I am so great” or “I have done this wonderful deed.” The thought of your ego stands between your rational nature and truth, banish it, and then you will see things as they are. He who thinks correctly will rid himself of ignorance and acquire wisdom. The ideas of “I am” and “I shall be” or “I shall not be” do not occur to a clear thinker.
I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
Learn to distinguish between Self and Truth. Self is the cause of selfishness and the source of evil; Truth cleaves to no self; it is universal and leads to justice and righteousness.
There are not different truths in the world, for truth is one and the same at all times and in every place.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light.
The true sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
A hundred thousand tongues may discourse to you about the sweetness of honey, but you can never have knowledge of it except by taste.
There comes for ever something between us and what we deem our happiness.
