The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

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

Those who trust us educate us.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges