“False fancy brings real misery.”

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

The will of man is his happiness.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

To save all we must risk all.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.

Maybe I expected you to be something that you were just never going to be.

You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.