Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
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.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
