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to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be read more
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is read more
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.