For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Faith is a certitude without proofs … a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
How then find the courage for action?… By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.
Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct … hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.
Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
Learn to … be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Learn to … be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.