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.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
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.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
My art and profession is to live.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
