The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.