Quotes

• Happiness is at times a blessing – but usually it’s a conquest. The magic instant helps us to change, drives us forward to seek our dreams. We shall suffer and go through quite a few difficult moments and face many a disappointment – but this is all transitory and inevitable, and eventually we shall feel proud of the marks left behind by the obstacles. In the future we will be able to look back with pride and faith.

• All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

• To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  ~Chuang-tzu

• If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

• No ego, no pain.

• My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.

  ~Sayen Shaku

• When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

  ~Gertrude Stein

• To set up what you like against what you don’t like — this is the disease of the mind.

  ~Sheng-ts’an

• Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.

  ~Shunryu Suzuki

• You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions.

  ~The Shodoka

• When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough.

• When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.

  ~Fen-Yang

• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

  ~Ugo Betti

• If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless, in the end the problem will be solved. If the problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it can’t be solved.

• It’s far more exhausting to be angry and blaming. You can dig deep within yourself and really have a desire for someone else’s happiness, which I feel…

  ~ Demi Moore