There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Live to the point of tears.

Any place I hang my head is home.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

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.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.