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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Every day, in every moment, you make the choice whether to love and harness the positive force - or not.
You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.