“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”

The river is everywhere.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.