If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.