I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Live simply so others may simply live.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
