We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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