Pain don't hurt.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
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.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
