The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
To think too much is a disease.
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Everything passes, only truth remains.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.
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