What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
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The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
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.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
Action expresses priorities.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
