There is no mistake in nature.
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.
To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Never turn your back on enthusiasm.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.
Join the dance.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.
I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
