I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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