“We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.”

If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head … will dissolve and you will forget about it

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

All my book are my favorites.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.

The real us is pure love, pure light

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

There is nothing to do except to be just who you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough… is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values– emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren’t enjoying the dream.

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.

I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

People always say it’s a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don’t want my name to be added to that list.

Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.