Sri Chinmoy

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.