Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
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.
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.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
