Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Where there is love there is life.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
