We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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