Quotes on Deep Thought

One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.