Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Nature can do more than physicians.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.