“Every night when I’m falling asleep, I say to myself, I am relaxed, energized, and focused. I am calm, enthusiastic, and productive.”

When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.

When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.

Fear makes us fiction writers.

When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.

Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.

Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.

No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.

Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.

Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.

Don’t judge the moment.

Saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.

Treat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.

You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.

To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.

You are who you are when no one is watching.

Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.

And in between the calm and the chaos you are evolving.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man