Robert Greene Archive

“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.”

“It is wretched to have an abundance of intentions and a poverty of action, to be rich in truths and poor in virtues.”

“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”

“A man prayed and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became quieter and quieter until, in the end, he realized prayer is listening.”

“It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion.”