We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
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.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
