Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

I went with my very being toward language.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Self-knowledge makes me happy.