Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Certain signs precede certain events.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
