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.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.