Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.
No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!
Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.
You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
