If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.
I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.
Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.
They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.