Let silence take you to the core of life.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
love the life you live.live the life you love.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.