One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

A true dreamer dreams when he is awake.

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

life is unfair, if you are weak, tour out

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.