Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
