Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.
It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
The living are just the dead on holiday
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.
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