Samuel Ullman Quotes

I'm a mature person.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

In the governing of souls, we need a cup of science, a barrel of wisdom, and a sea of patience.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.

I'm not going to dwell on what someone has said if it doesn't affect my life. I think that attitude helps to strengthen my character.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.