Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Live simply so others may simply live.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
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.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
The less you know, the more you believe.
