Nature is not human-hearted.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
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.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Life must be lived as play.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.