When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Topic: Fear, Life, Love
- Location: Arches National Park
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Do not feel certain of anything.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
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.
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
