There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
The future is the shape of things to come.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
