It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Certain signs precede certain events.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.