Echoes

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

If you're afraid — don't do it. If you're doing it — don't be afraid.

He who is brave is free.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.