Neel Burton Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only species of transcendence and immortality that is open to man. Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception

2. It's easier to be strong if we understand that being strong is easier.

3. Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.

4. Patience, I find, is highly correlated with love. Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions

5. We are successful if, having been in the world, we have created more than we have destroyed. The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide

6. Learning is like grape must, which turns sour unless entered into a sound vessel.

7. The best books are those that tell you what you already know, but didn't know that you knew.

8. The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left to become that doctor unto himself. Yet, this need not stop us from exhorting others to imitate us in the godly art, in the forlorn hope that they might transform themselves into better citizens for Athens and better companions for us. Plato: Letters to my Son