Often the choices we face are not between right and wrong, good and bad – that is easy if we are clear on our values – but between good and better.


What appears to be good may, upon further experience and reflection, actually be bad.


The knot which we have tied around ourselves and which is choking us cannot be cut; it must be untied.


Don’t blame life for all its evil; blame yourself for succumbing to it.


The problem with modern society is that its private vices have become public virtues.


Sometimes the most horrible of violences are done in the most gentle of ways.


Those who strive to keep their illusions tend to stagnate and do not move on; those who fear their illusions generally create more and thus walk backwards thinking they are walking forward; those who overcome them – and they do so by walking the hard road of persistence – walk forward.


One of the purposes of remembering is to remember to forget.


Idle thoughts sometimes generate profound ideas.


Those who appear idle are sometimes engaged in exhausting work.


He who is truly successful has no regrets of the past and no fears of the future. I would like to meet such a person.

Do you ever wonder who you may have associated with in your past life?