"To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you...
"I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased... I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the...
"Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor -- according to me -- is one of the most essential parts of religiousness."
"Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!"
"Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor."
"Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy."
"Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."
"Beauty surrounds us."