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<\/p>\nTo 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.<\/p>\n
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for.<\/p>\n
I am not young enough to know everything.<\/p>\n
What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.<\/p>\n
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.<\/p>\n
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.<\/p>\n
Those whom the gods love grow young.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It is love and the capacity for it that distinguishes one human being from another<\/p>\n
Only love can keep any one alive.<\/p>\n
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.<\/p>\n
I’m a man of simple tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.<\/p>\n
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.<\/p>\n
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.<\/p>\n
One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.<\/p>\n
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.<\/p>\n
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise<\/p>\n
When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.<\/p>\n
Women rule the world. I assure you we can’t bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.<\/p>\n
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.<\/p>\n
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.<\/p>\n
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.<\/p>\n
Nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.<\/p>\n
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money<\/p>\n
I don’t want to earn my living, I want to live.<\/p>\n
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.<\/p>\n
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.<\/p>\n
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.<\/p>\n
I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.<\/p>\n
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it<\/p>\n
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.<\/p>\n
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.<\/p>\n
Before Turner there was no fog in London.<\/p>\n
When Christ says ‘Forgive your enemies’, it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.<\/p>\n
In married life three is company and two is none.<\/p>\n
It is strange,’ the bird said. ‘It is very cold, but I feel quite warm.’
\n‘That is because you have done a good thing,’ said the prince.<\/p>\n
Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion – a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.<\/p>\n
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.<\/p>\n
Form is everything. It is the secret of life. Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you intensify its ecstasy. Do you wish to love? Use Love’s Litany, and the words will create the yearning from which the world fancies that they spring. Have you a grief that corrodes your heart? Steep yourself in the language of grief, learn its utterance from Prince Hamlet and Queen Constance, and you will find that mere expression is a mode of consolation, and that Form, which is the birth of passion, is also the death of pain.<\/p>\n
Pleasure is Nature\u2019s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.<\/p>\n
I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.<\/p>\n
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.<\/p>\n
Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.<\/p>\n
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one\u2019s own perfection, to make one\u2019s every dream a reality.<\/p>\n
All good work looks perfectly modern: a piece of Greek sculpture, a portrait of Velasquez\u2014they are always modern, always of our time.<\/p>\n
At the beginning I believe that God made a world for each separate man, and within that world, which is within us, one should seek to live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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