Life and Existence

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

If you are going through hell, keep going.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

Life is a verb. Life is not a noun. It is really “living” not “life.” It is not love, it is loving. It is not relationship, it is relating. It is not a song, it is singing. It is not a dance, it is dancing. See the difference, savor the difference.

Life is a verb. Life is not a noun. It is really “living” not “life.” It is not love, it is loving. It is not relationship, it is relating. It is not a song, it is singing. It is not a dance, it is dancing. See the difference, savor the difference.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

There is a women at the beginning of all great things.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.