Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Enjoy being with yourself, you will then not feel alone.

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.