Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.