I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As...

So said Tochihuitzin,so said Coyolchiuhqui:We come out of the dream suddenly,we only come to dream,it isn’t true, it isn’t truethat we come to live on the earth.Like grass in springis our being.Our heart makes them...

Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.

What other hope does life hold outBut the miraculous, the skilled and patientExecution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon...

Maybe our job in life is to helpa person run a little farther,to try a little harder,to not give up.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the...

The brain can think, but the heart knows better. So follow your instincts, follow your inner feelings.

How I wished after all the hardships, you will immediately attain your reward. But it’s not that easy. You need to wait for the right time to come in your life. Always bear in mind...

My BelovedKnow that my beloved in hidden from everyoneKnow that she is beyond the belief of all beliefsKnow that in my heart she is as clear as the moonKnow that she is the life in...

They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style—all the things one shouldn’t throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life...

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

You’re not a piece of nothing, but the all of everything.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Change lives on the horizon.

There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be...

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which we all come, and to which we can stayconnected throughout our lives as...

Well, son, I’ll tell you:Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.It’s had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor –Bare.But all the timeI’se been a-climbin’ on,And reachin’...

life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is-all-over.

That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don’t believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become...

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells....

When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.

Simple works, complex fails.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone’s sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.

Live as if you are the creator of your universe. Because you are.

Just do it. Now.

Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.

I can’t say for sure if I’m better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could have traveled to exotic places and kissed exotic men in the moonlight. Or...

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU…

if I feel like I’m not important to someone I won’t make myself important to someone

I would write my tears, weeping out my pain – I would empty my veins for ink.

It doesn’t matter what you did or where you were…it matters where you are and what you’re doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

… And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They’re quite awareof what they’re going through…

Live in the midst of a crowd, but think like you’re in the solitude.