Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
“Sometimes,” said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.’
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Love is the absence of judgment.