Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
