Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.