“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.

Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more – the memories of you, or the happy person I used to be.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.