Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.

I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.