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But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly.

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ...

Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

hy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.

I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

.....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.