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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Love is a great beautifier.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Keep passing the open windows.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
