The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
The most important time is Now
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?
If you want to be happy, be.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
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