Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

We need much less than we think we need.

Maya Angelou

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

Bertrand Russell