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.”