Live for yourself and you will live in vain. Live for others and you will live again.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Forever is composed of nows.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Without literature, life is hell.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
Art is the proper task of life.
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.