There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.