Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
In the end, everything is a gag.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
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.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!