Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. life
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. life
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. love
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. knowledge
People living deeply have no fear of death. death, fear & life
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. age, age, love & love
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. imagination
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. friendship
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. dad & time
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. courage & life
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. dreams, life & love
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. religion
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. travel
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. love
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. death
Good things happen to those who hustle. good
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. dreams
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? friendship & love
Dreams are necessary to life. dreams & life
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. nature
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. truth