It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

The only thing you ever have is now.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I like to take it easy.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

The self is hateful.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.