One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

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.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.