Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
