“Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”

Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

Death is Life’s high meed.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Avoid giving speeches in front of crowds.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the cultural shifts to avoid a climate catastrophe.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

Change is actually what you need to avoid.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.