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.”

“It is not where we breathe, but where we love, that we live.”

“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”

“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair”

“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”

That one is in despair is not a rarity; no, it is rare, very rare, that one is.. not in despair.