Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.
The living moment is everything.
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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