Rajneesh Quotes

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

To the stars through thorns.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

Success and failure go hand in hand.

So I have people who tweet and ask me, 'You can't be this happy all the time. You can't be this cheerful.' Well, yes I am. From where I've come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I'm never going to look at challenges.

Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.

I have lived through very difficult times.