I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.