“It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Anyone who has any kind of capacity to truly let go and give into yourself with any kind of desire to hold on for dear life.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Never compromise on who you are. You are born with the capacity to achieve greatness if you so desire.

We often neglect what we desire, and just follow the rules and norms which the world dictates.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires

Everyone desires change, but to improve yourself you have to start doing self-work.