Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
Still, in the end, we all die just the same.
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .
If you never noticed, it never happened.
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, an...
I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else i...
For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks...
Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respe...
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Dance, said the Sheep Man. Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, no...
Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching what goes on around them, trying not to make waves, and...
But this isn't their God, she decided. It's my God. This is a God I have found through sacrificing my own life, through my flesh being cut, my skin ripped off, my blood sucked away, my nails torn, all...
But maybe that’s the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long t...
People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off.