Best Osho Quotes on Life and Love

The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion.

You cannot be angry when alone

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

If you want to live life in its totality, the ingoing breath, and the outgoing breath, you need not choose. If you choose you will die.

You will do something and you will believe in the very contrary. That will create guilt. Everyone feels guilty. Not that everyone is guilty, everyone feels guilty because of this mechanism.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.

Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

There is fear because you feel that control will be lost, and once control is lost you cannot do anything.

The past is the memory, the future is imagination. Only the present is time. The past is not, it has already gone. The future is not; it has not come yet. Only the present is.

Crowds create illusions.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring god to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life.

Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is the beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

Pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go on missing. This pain is just to make you more alert–because people become alerted only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them.

But the man who knows the beauty of trust will not be distracted by these small things. He will still love you, he will still trust you. And then a miracle happens: if a man really trusts you, it is impossible to cheat him, almost impossible.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.

Actions are no more than dreams