You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Life is meant to be lived.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
I am always in love.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.