Tõnn Sarv > Quotes

“Wishes bring evil. Unrest brings trouble. Wanting brings misery. Knowing what’s enough, Then that’s enough.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“All the trouble begins with the importance of self-differentiation, putting yourself at the centre of the world, of your imagination, as if you should matter to everyone.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“Laozi: The least wisdom is enough to stay on the right way.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“Absolutely everything we know, believe or think is learned, acquired, obtained from others, from somewhere read or heard, and then we have compared, combined, reordered and resubmitted it. Rarely, if at all, is something totally new created.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“It’s like we’re sitting in a moving vehicle, but facing backwards. We only see the part of the road that has already passed. We have a steering wheel with which we can change the direction of our movement, of our own free will, but we will still only be able to decide which way to go on the basis of the path we have already travelled, only by the past.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“A man himself gives his life a reason and a purpose. In the same way, everyone creates their own God: all of it comes from the inside.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“Actually, it’s your image of yourself in your own imagination, it’s who you think you are – that is who suffers.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be

“Free yourself from illusions, free yourself from opinions and assessments, from words and names. Don’t worry, don’t bother, live in the moment.”
― Tõnn Sarv, Don't take anything personally: How to be