Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.