14 Quotes by Alexandra David-Neel

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Who knows the flower best? – the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul...

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet...

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow’s grass.