"There isnt always an explanation for everything."

"The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing."

"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."

"A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it."

"As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience."

"I am one thing, my writings are another."

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."

"Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done."

"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace."

"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then-- let it get even worse!"

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

"It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are."

"When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things."

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."