...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

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.

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

I wish I could hold you, " she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.