So How do you set yourself free ?
      So who has bound you ?

Lao Tse

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step

Lao Tse

Even in the common affairs of Life, in love , friendship and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.


William Hazlitt

Learn to distinguish between Self and Truth. Self is the cause of selfishness and the source of evil; Truth cleaves to no self; it is universal and leads to justice and righteousness

Buddhism

If we could put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy


Thomas Kempis

Q. We are always building something , always trying to create an existence which is higher and better and more tranquil. Yet with all this effort, everything remains the same, including our shaky state of happiness

A. The difficulty is that we do not make a world of our own, but fall in to institutions already made

Emerson.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. It is easy to be active.
Let the reins go, and the horses will drag you down. Any one can do that, but
he who can stop the plunging horses is a strong man. Which requires the
greater strenght, letting go or restraining ? The calm man is not the man who is dull..Activity is the manifestation of the lower strength calmness of the superior strength.


Vivekananda

If you want your judgement to be accepted , express it cooly and without passion. All violence has its origin in the will, and so, if your judgement is expressed with vehemence, people will consider it an effort of will, and not the outcome of knowledge, which is in its nature calm and unemotional.

Schopenhauer