… was the great and general renunciation which old age makes in preparation for death, the chrysalis stage of life, which may be observed wherever life has been unduly prolonged; even in old lovers who...

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison...

It was then that I realized I wasn’t afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could’ve lived.

Does this story have a happy ending?” Bobby asked.”There is no such thing as an ending,” she said. “Good things come out of bad things and bad things come out of good things, but it...

I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on...

Me”( Notice Me)I was sent here on a journey that has no end.I hear you joke of going nowhere fast.Well, maybe life’s a joke and I’m the foolThat dreams of being first but ends up...

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You...

I’m convinced that not all units of time are equal.

As long as you’re moving, it’s easier to steer.

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption”

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the...

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a...

There wasn’t a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it...

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let...

Love is the energy of life.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he’s not dead.

Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

Tatsächlich hat der arbeitende Mensch heute nicht mehr die Muße, sein Leben Tag für Tag wirklich sinnvoll zu gestalten.Wahrhaft menschliche Beziehungen zu seinen Mitmenschen kann er sich nicht leisten; es würde den Marktwert seiner Arbeit...

Life was not meant to be live alone.

Knowing the path to follow doesn’t make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we’d all have arrived.

I don’t judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align...

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews...

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the...

The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free.

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are...

I’m sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

You can hide what you’re thinking, but you can’t hide your heart’s feeling.

Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.

Where there is change, there is happiness

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.

The journey of life is filled with unlimited opportunities and possibilities.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

The mind is biased; the heart is not. To see the beauty, see through the heart.

Lift Not The Painted VeilLift not the painted veil which those who liveCall Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,And it but mimic all we would believeWith colours idly spread,–behind, lurk FearAnd Hope, twin Destinies;...

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew)...

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Human kind is on one big power trip that is ripping the sole out of the subtleness and kindness of the human spirit

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

I wish I worried about my uncle’s opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I’d settle for knowing what her voice sounded like.” I put a hand on her shoulder. “Trite...