Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Everything that gets born dies.
It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.
We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
I'd always been interested in psychology.
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
