To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.