Mikael Gudim > Mikael's Quotes

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
― Albert Einstein

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
― Carl Jung

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”
― Booker T. Washington

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
― Carl Jung

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods