Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
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
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
