Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Our own life has to be our message.