Ah, who brings the happy moments, Glorious days of sweet first love; Who can bring back a single hour Of that blessed time again.
Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments.
I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist, I am not advocating Zen Buddhism, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer. That is to say, in the same sense, that when you go to a concert and you listen to someone play Mozart, he has nothing to sell except the sound of the music. He doesn’t want to convert you to anything. He doesn’t want you to join an organization in favor of Mozart's music as opposed to, say, Beethoven's. And I approach you in the same spirit as a musician with his piano or a violinist with his violin. I just want you to enjoy a point of view that I enjoy.
If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
It is desire that creates the desirable, it is the project that poses the end.
Extreme justice is often an insult.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
My library was dukedom large enough.
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Man is the being who wills.
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.
Only do not look for anything behind the phenomena; they themselves are the teaching.
In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
You can never soften the skin of a hedgehog.
It is through gainful employment that the woman has traversed most of the distance that separated her from the male; and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.
Seek to be counselled, seek not to be praised.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Hope may seem a kind of Leaf-joy, and like Gold, extremely ductile.
The mask is torn off, the reality remains.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless.
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