The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.