Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Appearance rules the world.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.