Wisdom Quotes

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"To reach a port we must set sail – sail, not tie at anchor; sail, not drift."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."

"Every storm runs out of rain."

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

"No mud, no lotus."

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing."