Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
