Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.