But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
"This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely."
The successful do not pursue what's probable; the best pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Imagine a future moment in your life where all your dreams come true. You know it's the greatest moment of your life and you get to experience it with one person. Who's standing next to you?
You can never get enough of what you don't really need to make you happy.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.