Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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.