How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
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.
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
You can’t read about push ups. You gotta do them.
Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.