Live your life without ever having to ask, 'What if?

Don’t think about the future. Just be here now.

Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.

Living without mistakes is truly impossible. But this is something that people who live by cleverness have no inclination to think about.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

But the easiest way to live in the moment is to put yourself in a situation where there’s no other choice.

It is possible of course to get stuck in the “mud” of life. It’s easy enough to notice mud all over you at times. The hardest thing to practice is not allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by despair. When you’re overwhelmed by despair, all you can see is suffering everywhere you look. You feel as if the worst thing is happening to you. But we must remember that suffering is a kind of mud that we need in order to generate joy and happiness. Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We do not even have time to find out if our momentum is taking us over the nearest cliff.

How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world, — you must have noticed them in the street, — how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Once well underground, you know exactly where you are. Nothing can happen to you, and nothing can get at you. You're entirely your own master and you don't have to consult anybody or mind what they say. Things go on all the same overhead, and you let 'em, and don't bother about 'em. When you want to, up you go, and there the things are, waiting for you.

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.