We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.
How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
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