Tilopa

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

An index is a great leveller.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.