“The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn’t leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, ‘Oh, are you Mac Miller?’ and then the rest of the night I couldn’t be myself.

The people united will never be defeated.

There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.