When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Children remind us that we’re all children.

Every writer knows that words are the enemy.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.

Some truths can only be seen in the dark.

Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.

Everyone dies young.

Opinion: a sign of ignorance.

The tallest mountain in Tibet is just part of the scenery.

Look for the exception to every rule and you’ll find it.

To put one’s career before one’s personal life is like putting death before life.

I don’t believe in the inner journey. Real life is lived outdoors.

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.

The pearl only weighs the oyster down.

We’re all drowning, but don’t say it out loud.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

You can’t dissect a dream without killing it.

I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.

You can’t know people, only their names.

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.

It’s no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn’t agree.

A person can drop dead even while singing. But that’s no reason to stop singing.

What is love after but trusting in the unknown.

It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.

A shooting star yields very little light.

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.

The head follows the feet. We live first and find reasons later.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

To speak of happiness is to create happiness.

When I’m dying, I want dying to be my only regret.

Moderation is an attempt to live within one’s emotional means.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Wars have always been easier to fight than explain.

The truth is what you live through while you’re looking for the truth.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one’s own life.

If you’re afraid to be alone, you are alone.

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another.

You can spit on a rose, but it’s still a rose.

The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

When a head and a wall collide, it’s never the wall that breaks.

Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem.

The plant that’s been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

Joy is wisdom I trust.

Most of our troubles are imaginary. We think them into existence.

We choose a path, but not what’s on it.