“Your passion becomes a purpose when you use it to serve others.”

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.

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

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

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

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience, When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.

Hunger not to have, but to be.

Dreams don’t work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.