Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

What’s done can’t be undone.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.