Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

People think being depressed is just being tired and lazy. It isn't. It's more like being dead when you're still breathing.

Oh captain my captain

I'm sorry about what happened, ' Love said. Death squeezed his hand. 'Play as yourself. Not as me. Trust me one that.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.