The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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.'
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
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.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
