“This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.”
“I don t understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There s only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?”
“You ve never lived what you are thinking, and that isn t good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
“Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don t want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn t actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.”
“Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.”
“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.”
“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.”
“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it s disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It s astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It s almost like those things didn t happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don t really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can t even remember her name.”
“The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.”
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“Let’s dare to prepare for living in an unchartered terrain, in a house with no name, and no number, if the sinking feeling of a musty relationship kills our spirit and exiles us from ourselves. Retraction and reflection allow us to rediscover and renew ourselves, in time. ( Feeling like a fallen star )”