Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. |

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. |

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. |

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.... |

The world is too noisy and distracted to probably ultimately survive. Everyone needs to shut the fuck up. The answers are in the silence. Monks set themselves on fire to protest and to make this point. Just consider it. |

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. |

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. |

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying. |

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. |

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. |

Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance. |

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell. |

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. |

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. |

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? |

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. |

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. |

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. |

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. |

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be. |

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. |

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. |

Universe consists of frozen light. |