If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

The way to know life is to love many things.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.