Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.
Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Music is the can-opener of the soul.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Everything hinges on how you look at things
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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