By letting go it all gets done.
To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it’s the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
I believe that every single event in life happens as an opportunity to choose love over fear.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.