No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Life is a dead-end street.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.