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.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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.
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.
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
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.
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.
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.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
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