The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfills its destiny.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

A smile is the brightness of love

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Love is given to us from an inexhaustible source to let it wisely flow on to others.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Happiness, not in another place, but this place ... not for another hour, but for this hour.

May you live every day of your life.

A smile gives brightness to the day.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

There's no war that will end all wars.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.