When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
In the end, everything is a gag.
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
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.