The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
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.
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.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
