“It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand.”

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative.

Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.

Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.

Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.

Crowds create illusions.

Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests.

Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers.

You need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

Be – don’t try to become.

No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

All my sorrows can be borne if you’re only next to me.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Everybody’s born to be different, that’s the one thing that makes us the same.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.