Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
Existence is an imperfection.
The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.
Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
There's no coming to consciousness without pain.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Your will shall decide your destiny.
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.