“For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.”

If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers.

Beauty is no more than the promise of happiness.

All the happiness in this world arises from wishing others to be happy; all the suffering arises from wishing oneself to be happy.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou.

To learn and at due times to repeat what one has learnt, is that not after all a pleasure?

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.