“We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.”

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.

All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. You’re my teacher.

Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.

The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.

If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else

We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love

Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.

What’s on your news feed is feeding your mind.

Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.

So people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.

Most of our communication is nonverbal.

We were playing hide and seek with our shadows simply pretending to grasp for love we could not find in ourselves.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

I am everything with you and nothing without myself.

In light of recent events can you tell me where to find the light?

With all the secrets and lies you keep. Your beauty is only skin deep. Vamp.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.