We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
