To affirm a life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.