Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.