“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the worldbut then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I doI would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”

“This is indeed the nature of worldly life, isn’t it? We anticipate happiness in old age. But in old age we develop severe back pain, which will not let us sit peacefully. That is why people are searching for moksha [ultimate liberation]; once we reach our own place, there will be no problems, right?”

“The Self is the only thing that is worth knowing. Nothing else in this world is worth knowing. The other things which you have known are all relative and they are destructible. If you have a desire for worldly happiness, then you have to know the destructible religion.  ”

“The world is what it is, and you are what you are.”

“The world is far too lovely to be sad all the time.”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

“While some search the world for their happiness, others realise it has been inside all along.”

“If it wasn’t for Buddha’s wisdom we would not understand the love within the world around us.”

“You don’t have to be in a perfect situation to be happy.You just have to feel at peace with the world.”