“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

If you want to be happy, be.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless you actually fail the test?

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.