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

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.