“If you never ask the question the answer will always be no.”
“Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.”
“Allow yourself to seek what is seeking you.”
“There are no bonds so tight and sure than those which we ourselves hold, preventing us from moving forward”
“... nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily.”
“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men s opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“After a breath and before another, there s plenty of time to rest.”
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
“When what you hear and what you see don t match, trust your eyes.”
“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary. From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
“The world was destroyed by those who grew up without love”