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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Look for the answer inside your question.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Make us happy and you make us good.
They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
The sole equality on earth is death.
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
Love is no assignment for cowards.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
How Sunday into Monday melts!
