Wisdom

“You have power over your mind, not over outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“When you wake in the morning, remember what a precious gift it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to feel, to love.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“The soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

“Very little is needed to live a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.”

“What does not benefit the swarm does not benefit the bee either.”

“Soon you will have forgotten everything, and soon everyone will have forgotten you.”

“Do not torment yourself with the future. You will meet it, if you must, with the same reason that serves you in the present.”

“The best way to avenge yourself: do not become like the one who did the wrong.”

“Dig within yourself. Within lies the wellspring of good, and it can always flow again if you keep digging.”

“People look for retreats: in the country, by the sea, in the mountains. Yet you are free to retreat into yourself at any hour.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Do not live as though you had ten thousand years before you. While you live, while you can: be good.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has trouble enough of its own.”

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.”

“All things are possible to the one who believes.”

“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

“A new commandment I give you: love one another as I have loved you.”

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“Whoever does not have two thirds of his day for himself is a slave.”

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the minds that are prevented from changing their opinions: they cease to be mind.”

“He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

“What does your conscience say? You shall become the one you are.”

“The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem those who think alike above those who think differently.”

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-imposed immaturity.”

“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.”

“Nothing in the world, nor even beyond it, can possibly be conceived as good without limitation, except a good will.”

“Thinking is speaking with oneself.”

“The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.”

“Man can only become man through education.”

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so many people gladly remain immature for life.”

“The All is mind; the universe is mental.”

“As above, so below; as below, so above.”

“Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”

“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites.”

“Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall.”

“Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”

“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding.”

“Mind may be transmuted from state to state, degree to degree, pole to pole, vibration to vibration.”

“The principles of truth are seven; he who knows and understands them possesses the magic key before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open.”

“To change your mood, set your vibration to the degree you desire.”

“It is far safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two must be lacking.”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be. Few feel what you are.”

“Whoever makes another powerful ruins himself.”

“Men forget the death of a father sooner than the loss of their inheritance.”

“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, so they hurt for less time. Benefits should be given slowly, so they are savoured longer.”

“Know the other and know yourself, and you need not fear a hundred encounters.”

“A hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest skill. To undo resistance without fighting is.”

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

“Water shapes its course to the ground. Whoever wins adapts to what lies before them.”

“Victory is prepared before it is sought. Whoever begins to plan mid-fight has already lost.”

“It is not because it is hard that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that it is hard.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much of it.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“You travel far and change countries, but you take yourself along everywhere.”

“Everyone takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“Wealth is like seawater: the more you drink, the thirstier you become.”

“People become sociable out of poverty of self.”

“Every day is a small life. Whoever throws it away throws away no small thing.”

“Nothing is easier than condemning a person. Nothing is harder than understanding them.”

“A human being is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and whoever spends a life at it has not wasted their time.”

“Whoever lies to themselves ends up losing the ability to tell anything apart.”

“A person does not grow through happiness. They grow through what they have carried.”

“It is not things that disturb us, but the views we take of them.”

“Some things are up to us and some are not. All peace begins with telling the two apart.”

“Do not ask that things happen as you wish. Wish them as they happen, and your life will run calmly.”

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we listen twice as much as we speak.”

“Do not talk about how a good person should be. Be one.”

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say.”

“Say to yourself at dawn: today I will meet the ungrateful, the arrogant, the envious. None of them can harm me.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing: you must stand ready for what comes unannounced.”

“No one loses any life other than the one they live, nor lives any other than the one they lose.”

“Stop arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“How absurd not to flee your own conduct, which is possible, and to flee another's, which is not.”

“What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.”

“Look within. There is the source of good, and it will ever bubble up if you will ever dig.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“The best revenge is to be unlike the one who did the wrong.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“No wind is favourable to one who does not know where they are going.”

“Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.”

“It is not the one who has little who is poor, but the one who craves more.”

“One who is everywhere owns nothing. One who is at home in themselves lacks nothing.”

“The one who is feared by many has many to fear.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“Fire tests gold, misfortune tests the strong.”

“It is not things that trouble people, but their judgements about things.”

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.”

“Do not demand that things happen as you wish. Wish them to happen as they do, and you will be at peace.”

“It is impossible for anyone to learn what they think they already know.”

“Difficulty shows what a person is. No wrestler grows strong without an opponent.”

“Some things are in our power, others are not. All peace begins with knowing the difference.”

“If someone blames you and you are not disturbed, they have struck nothing that belongs to you.”

“No one is free who is not master of themselves.”

“One who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster.”

“It is not doubt that drives people mad, but certainty.”

“In the end one loves one's desire and not the thing desired.”

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: with it one gets through many a bad night.”

“Wealth is like sea water: the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”

“Everyone takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“Solitude is the price one pays for being oneself.”

“Courtesy is like a coating of wax: it costs little and protects much.”

“Nine tenths of our happiness rests on health alone.”

“What a person is in themselves, what accompanies them into solitude, matters more than all they possess.”

“Life swings like a pendulum between pain and boredom.”

“Dare to use your own understanding.”

“Act so that the maxim of your will could always hold as a principle of universal law.”

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new wonder: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“The human being can become human only through education. He is nothing but what education makes of him.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself.”

“By their fruits you shall know them.”

“Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye and not the beam in your own?”

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be. Few feel what you are.”

“Whoever makes another powerful ruins themselves.”

“People forget the death of a father sooner than the loss of their inheritance.”

“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, benefits given little by little.”

“One who wishes to be good in everything is ruined among so many who are not.”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.”

“The supreme art is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“In calm prepare. In storm act.”

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

“Water shapes its course to the ground. The wise shape their victory to the opponent.”

“Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the other's unreadiness.”

“Man is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life at it, do not say you wasted your time.”

“One who lies to themselves and listens to their own lie comes to know no truth at all.”

“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

“The mystery of existence lies not in living alone, but in knowing what one lives for.”

“Everything is dual. Everything has poles. Opposites are identical in nature and differ only in degree.”

“Nothing rests. Everything moves. Everything vibrates.”

“Everything flows out and in. Everything has its tides. The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

“What fortune has not given, it cannot take away.”

“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”

“Life is long enough if you know how to use it.”

“Time discovers the truth.”

“The world is change, life is opinion.”

“Where it is possible to live, it is possible to live well.”

“Do not waste the rest of your life thinking about other people.”

“You can drop any tormenting thought at any moment and be at once in complete calm.”

“Everything that happens happens either as you can bear it, or as you cannot.”

“First say to yourself what you want to be. Then do what you have to do.”

“The wise demand nothing of another and reproach no one.”

“Demand nothing that is not yours, and nothing will ever be taken from you.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“Man is a rope tied between beast and overman. A rope over an abyss.”

“I love him who wants to create beyond himself, and so perishes.”

“A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

“The greatest folly is to sacrifice health for anything else.”

“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”

“Man is the only creature that must be educated.”

“The worth of a man lies not in what he owns, but in what he is.”

“It is not enough to know, one must apply. It is not enough to will, one must do.”

“Who cannot give account of three thousand years stays in the dark, unlearned, living day to day.”

“The present is a mighty goddess.”

“He who knows others is clever. He who knows himself is wise.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“He who has enough is rich.”

“Nothing in the world is softer than water, and yet it defeats the hard.”

“He who makes a mistake and does not correct it commits a second one.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“We talk the longest about what we do not know.”

“All of man's unhappiness comes from not being able to sit quietly in a room.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“The price of a thing is the amount of life you give for it.”

“A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the sum of all his thoughts.”

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him to himself.”

“Act now. There is never any time but now.”