Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
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.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
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.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
