Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
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
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
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.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
What goes up must come down.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
