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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is mans original virtue”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with success”
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
“To define is to limit”
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world in a family. Most people in families exist and that is all.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
“To define is to limit.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Be yourself because everyone else is already taken. Authentic creativity flows from authenticity.”
“Experience is the best teacher.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“Knowledge is the source of wealth creation”
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world because most people exist without ever experiencing true wonder”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“No object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly”
“Be yourself everyone else is already taken”
“True friends stab you in the front.”
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“The world is a stage but the play is badly cast and only wonder makes the performance worth watching”
“Experience is what makes us understand better what we already know.”
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all. Truly living means finding peace.”
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