Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
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.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.