A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.