Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
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.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
