Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.