Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

Lao Tzu

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

Ramana Maharshi

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

M. Antoniinus

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others.

George Eliot

The ultimate purpose of inquiry is that it allows us to pause. In the space of a pause, truth can shine through.

Tara Brach