The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.
We love those in whom we can confide.
We no longer know what we feel when we can say what we feel.
The suicide? What would he have done if death did not exist?
Human nature isn’t bedrock: it flows.
Live each day as if you were going to die that night.
Mutual helplessness is the essential relation between parent and child.
Everything is irrelevant but this: to embrace life. To feel it. To savor it. To love it.
There are no safe voyages and no safe ports.
A scent of lavender cannot be put into words.
They don’t smile, they don’t speak, they don’t touch. Are they human?
Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That’s the stupid advice philosophers give today.
Sing, laugh and be merry because today you’re alive.
Love is being comfortable together.
Nature never contradicts itself; only ideas do.
I found all my prayers answered in the silence of the stone.
It’s a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.
Get rid of all that societal and cultural baggage. The true self is no one.
Just to see the sun sparkling on the water makes being worthwhile.
From the body, pleasure; from the body, pain. From the body, life; from the body, death.