Once you label me you negate me.
From Soren Kierkegaard
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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