We create our fate everyday
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit o...
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how, in what way, because of what concatenation of events or c...
I was like Robinson Crusoe on the island of Tobago. For hours at a stretch I would lie in the sun doing nothing, thinking of nothing. To keep the mind empty is a feat, a very healthful feat too. To be...
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...
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication o...
Better to separate than never to marry.
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.
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.
لكي يعرف الإنسان السلام يجب أن يجرب الصراع، عليه أن يمر بالمرحلة البطولية قبل أن يتمكن من التصرف كحكيم، يجب أن يصبح ضحية انفعالاته قبل أن يتمكن من التعالي عليها
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
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,...
Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling a...
The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re...