Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.
[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness. . . Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.
Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?
She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.