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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

Life is available only in the present moment.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.

We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.