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I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, molecular, moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, … Continue reading →

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Hope is a state of mind, not a state of the world. . . .Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are … Continue reading →

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.

She said there were two people you had to be true to—those people who came before you and those people who came after you.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.