You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.