monk Quotes

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

• 823
• inspirational

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

• 318
• Happiness

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

• 230
• thought

Your worst enemies won't harm you as much your own unguarded thoughts.

• 221
• thoughts

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

• 219
• action

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

• 217
• Health

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

• 213
• Salvation

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

• 189
• happiness

Fools wait for a lucky day but every day is a lucky day for an industrious man.

• 165
• lucky

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

• 142
• marriage

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

• 134
• brings

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.

• 116
• yourself

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

• 109
• generosity

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

• 78
• thinking

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

• 78
• Resentment

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

• 74
• Identity

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

• 70
• Endurance

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

• 62
• Change

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

• 58
• alone

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

• 54
• Friends

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

• 52
• Thought

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

• 51
• Anger

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

• 45
• truth

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

• 37
• inspirational

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

• 36
• Marriage

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

• 31
• death

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

• 29
• Evil

With our thoughts we make the world.

• 25
• inspirational

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

• 23
• Family

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

• 22
• Love

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

• 21
• Evil

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

• 20
• Truth

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

• 19
• Integrity

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

• 18
• Anger

How soon not now, becomes never.

• 17
• Procrastination

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

• 17
• Principles

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

• 14
• Death

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

• 13
• care

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

• 13
• world

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

• 13
• Purpose

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

• 13
• Goodness

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

• 13
• Caution

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

• 12
• wisdom

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

• 12
• inspirational

What we think, we become.

• 12
• become

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

• 12
• Meditation

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

• 12
• Hate

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

• 11
• travel

You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

• 11
• Spirituality

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

• 11
• Love