We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay...

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

It is all about a prefix we burn the candle of life for.

We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day – just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly...

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and dont’s. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Real change will come when you focus on yourself – not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing...

el amor es como la vida, tan lleno de belleza como de injusticia.

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life on earth, that led to my genes being created and my standing in...

All through life there were distinctions – toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women – then, at the end, the graves are identical.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded.

You are the sunshine, so raise above the clouds of anger, hate, resentment and intolerance to fill the world with beauty of love.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world — its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you...

There’s gon’ be some stuff you gon’ seethat’s gon’ make it hard to smile in the future.But through whatever you see,through all the rain and the pain,you gotta keep your sense of humor.You gotta be...

We are born crying, and for good reason,’ he reflected. ‘And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

Nobody is so busy that they can’t make time for the people they really care about.

I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.

Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face ‘wind of sorrow’; flex little harder to dance in the ‘wind of happiness’.

Being — a state that is open to life yet connected to this moment” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’s Secret

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

Cuando me di cuenta que el mundo era como esa naranja me dieron unas ganas tremendas de comerme un pedazo del mundo. Sentía una sed terrible y los dientes se me salían de la boca...

Freddie often fold me that you’ve got to be happy when you can, because life won’t wait for you to take the time. And she was right.

What we call life…is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are...

Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while you weren’t at work. Drugs were something you did sometimes when you couldn’t...

The day of birth is day of life.

He stopped walking when we reached his truck, looked from the ground to my lips and then he took a step closer to me, pushing me until my back was up against the cold wet...

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist–for we would be no longer who we are.

Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.

I heard him sweeping with the broom, and then he suddenly stopped.I had obviously got his attention, and he was looking.Take a good look, honey, I thought. Take a good look at what I’m offering.I...

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.

yes” to life. Our heart is the door to surrender to life.

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

At one point in my life you’ll have my best but not my whole.

I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ‘Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy.

En av lärorna på Tlön går så långt att den förnekar tiden: den tänker sig att nuet är oändligt, att framtiden inte är verklig annat än som en förväntan i nuet, att det förflutna inte...

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence...

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that...

Then, when I thought it couldn’t get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I’m truly in Heaven.

If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.