It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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.
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
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
My art and profession is to live.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
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.
