Oneself Quotes

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Clearly understand, there isn’t any situation that isn’t made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry serves only one purpose it makes matters worse.