One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
love the life you live.live the life you love.
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
