The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Topic: Awareness, Life, Perception
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.