Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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.

Be yourself, it doesn‘t matter who is looking, Fall in love like you’ve never been hurt, Sing like you are alone even when you are not, And be free like it's paradise on earth.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Those who understand nature walk with God.

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully.

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.