The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
What most people fear when they think of old age is the inability to make new friends. If one ever had the faculty of making friends one never loses it however old one grows. Next to love friendship,...
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
I stood before a mirror and said fearfully: I want to see how I look in the mirror with my eyes closed.These wrods of Richter’s, when I first came upon them, made an indescribable commotion in me. As...
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. Totell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hot
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate...
At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy.
At that moment I rejoiced that I was free of possessions, free of all·ties, free of fear and envy and malice. I could have passed quietly from one dream to another, owning nothing, regretting nothing,...
They never opened the door which leads to the soul.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
الطريقة التي يقرأ بها المرء كتابا، هي الطريقة التي يقرأ بها الحياة.
Ja znam da sloboda znači odgovornost.isto tako znam kako se lako želja može pretvoriti u čin. čak i kad sklopim oči, moram paziti kako sanjam i o čemu, jer samo najtanji veo deli tada san od jave.
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. T...
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without le...