Material wealth can be bad for your health.Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil,that you couldn’t keep it all for your self.

O the divine, O my love, I don’t want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude.

Don’t ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your...

Never go for a drink in London’s square mile, nobody ever gets a round in.

Good health is subjective and cumulative depending on individual interpretation. Do not allow someone else’s shortcomings to become yours.

…what have you accumulated from the past—what are you in the process of accumulating that will be passed on, if not deliberately, then accidentally? Is this accumulation the best of what has been and the...

It’s good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it’s going

Be the cyclone of love to extinguish the fire of hatred.

Unconsciously, I had doubts about everything around me, and all I had to do is to act selfish, and to walk through everything like a wise lady. So I attracted their eyes and I haunted...

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

Love and kindness are in the root of all creations.

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it...

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

People perish not because of lack of faith; they perish because of lack of knowledge! Know yourself!

I almost gave my life long ago for a thingThat has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes—It is strange how often a heart must be brokenBefore the years can make it wise.

Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can’t turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

Those who are willing to love find love in every flower.

You can’t put your heart into everything; you’ve just got to show up. And if your heart is worn all over you, then so be it, but you can’t pull it out of you and...

If you can’t love yourself how can you love others.

All the things that people do in order to show that they don’t need anybody… meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, “Please keep me.” We all want to be kept. The problem...

Desperation is often more powerful than inspiration.

The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves...

I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn’t. But understanding… that’s where things get sticky.

Perhaps a human simply falls back into himself upon the disintegration of his physical body, and continues to take form within the self of himself, simply returning from whence he came.

A listening heart can take away stress. A loving and friendly hug can heal and bless.

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

Don’t be adamant; don’t make up your mind about all the things that don’t even have anything at all to do with you. Don’t be too quick to define right and wrong. Life has a...

Love is there when one lives in the beauty and goodness of others.

A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

So much to see, so much to do.So much adventure just waiting for you.

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain’t, and it’s important that you can tell the difference.

This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen; but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen.

Many say “What goes up must come down.” I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that “What goes up…must have started some place.” #workhard

Let stars brighten your eye.

No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.

Bloom to the fullest along the cutting edges of life.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to...

Live with guts feeling but not with reasoning.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given...

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Life is not a bootcamp for heaven, but life is a heaven for spiritual procession.

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean...

When Your Life Looks Back,When your life looks back–As it will, at itself, at you–what will it say?Inch of colored ribbon cut from the spool.Flame curl, blue-consuming the log it flares from.Bay leaf. Oak leaf....

Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely.

IthakaAs you set out for Ithakahope the voyage is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you...

A time past is an essence gone

Life is an experiment and experience.