Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.