“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

God enters through the wound.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

You and only you know the pain you are willing to endure to achieve what others think is the impossible.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Life is the most brutal endurance sport of all time.