Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly. The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs. The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

Spiritual practice should be followed constantly over a long period. In modern times, people are either lazy or unnecessarily busy.

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.

The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Foolish people inflict pain upon themselves which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.