Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.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.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose