One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
Some things are best mended by a break.
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.
There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
Each time you happen to me all over again.
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