People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.