Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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.
Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.
The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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.