To be good is to be in harmony with oneself, discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One’s own life, that is the important thing.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for.
I am not young enough to know everything.
What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved, difference of object does not alter singleness of passion, it merely intensifies it.
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
It is love and the capacity for it that distinguishes one human being from another
Only love can keep any one alive.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I’m a man of simple tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. If any love is shown us we should recognise that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine, non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me.
I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
