Only poetry inspires poetry.
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
There are no have-to’s, just choices.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
All that appears is devoid of independent existence, just like a magical apparition or a dream.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
…with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.
Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
