“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.