Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!