One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.
Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.
To win one’s joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Man’s responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one’s youth one’s greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.