Quotes on Inspirational

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Become totally empty _x000D_ _x000D_ Quiet the restlessness of the mind _x000D_ _x000D_ Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Not-knowing is true knowledge. _x000D_ _x000D_ Presuming to know is a disease._x000D_ _x000D_ First realize that you are sick;_x000D_ _x000D_ then you can move toward health.

He who stands on tiptoe _x000D_ _x000D_ doesn't stand firm. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who rushes ahead _x000D_ _x000D_ doesn't go far. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who tries to shine _x000D_ _x000D_ dims his own light. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who defines himself _x000D_ _x000D_ can't know who he really is. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who has power over others _x000D_ _x000D_ can't empower himself. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who clings to his work _x000D_ _x000D_ will create nothing that endures.

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

Read less, study less, but think more

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.