Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
