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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

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.'

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.