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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.