“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
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“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us… It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
“Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
“Be — don’t try to become.”
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger- -but recognize the opportunity.”
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.”
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”