And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. |
