A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be. |
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. |
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. |
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next. |
Contraries are cured by contraries. |
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world |
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world |
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. |
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body |
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body |
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. |
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. |
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. |
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? |
Lessons are not given, they are taken. |