Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Life must be lived as play.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.