People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.