It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
There's place and means for every man alive.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
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.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.