When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

If you follow the natural intentions, you get the most success out of life.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.