Famous Quotes Ipsum

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. writers tend to devour people, themselves included. drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? you teach what you have to learn. it is not necessary to have achieved perfection to speak of perfection. it is not necessary to have achieved mastery to speak of mastery. it is not necessary to have achieved the highest level of evolution to speak of the highest level of evolution. seek only to be genuine. strive to be sincere. you know that place between sleep and awake? where you still remember dreaming? that's where i'll always think of you. neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. live simply, but be complicated. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart. think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. never during its pilgrimage is the spirit of man completely adrift and alone. from start to finish its nucleus is the atman - the self - luminous abiding point, boundless as the sky, indivisible, absolute, the only reality. the fear of death follows from the fear of life. a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. never judge a book by its movie. he who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'. the street corner where always, for years, in passing you felt, unexplained, a pang of despair, like nausea, till one night, late, late, on that spot you were struck, struck still, and again felt how her head had thrust to your shoulder. i'm at peace with the world. i'm completely serene. i've discovered my purpose in life. i know why i was put here and why everything exists... i am here so everybody can do what i want. once everybody accepts it, they'll be serene too. for man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, perfectly alive..

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. new adventures hid around each corner. the future was again a secret. one can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. when you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. i always give myself such very good advice, but i very seldom follow it. my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. spending time is inevitable. you're going to spend your time doing something. it might as well be something you want to do. what do you experience with your first mouthful of hot fudge sundae? its not surprising that we carry it over to describe the intensity of love and sex. what is a hero? primarily one who has conquered his fears. we don't say everything that we could / so that we can say later / "oh, you misunderstood" religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. how pleased can one sun setting make you if you humble yourself to it? how grateful can you really say that you are just to be here and live through it? most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons. we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. goodbyes always make my throat hurt . . . i need more hellos. to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. all sanity is great madness, but the greatest madness of all is to live life the way it is, rather than as it should be..