We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

In quietness the soul expands.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

Live for each second without hesitation.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.