Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.