If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.