Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Prolonged instruction, prolonged training, is necessary to be able to turn the cheek. And if this training is mechanical – it is again worth nothing because in this case it means that a man will turn his cheek because he cannot do anything else.

To love work for work’s sake and not for its gain.

Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

Truth is that from which conscience can be at peace.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

All this teaching given in fragments must be pieced together, and observations and actions must be connected to it. If there is no paste, nothing will stick.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.