Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Live to the point of tears.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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.
