Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

There is nothing so stable as change.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.

People living deeply have no fear of death.