Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy, because you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you will be going.
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
Control yourself and no one elseAnd you willsee the Truth my brother
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.