“One must be able to let things happen.”

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.