Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
In the end, everything is a gag.