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Whatever more we do, we will never know the repose, the gentle stillness of things. We will always walk on quicksand.
Les Boulevards de Ceinture
The events that happen in our life do not have interest by themselves, but rather on how they impact on our imagination and our dreams.
Interview (2014)
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
It is really a miracle how you have managed to be so miserable, so thirsty, when it is raining all over. You have really done the impossible! Everywhere it is light and you live in darkness. Death is nowhere and you are constantly dying; life is a benediction and you are in hell.
The Empty Boat: Encounters with Nothingness
Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?
Nemesis
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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