Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
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Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.