Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

The self is hateful.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Nobody knows me.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

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

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

My friends, there are no friends.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘