Mingyur Rinpoche

Letting go is not giving up.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.