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

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.

Pain don't hurt.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

History is the devil's scripture.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.