The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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