We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.Collection: Thinking
It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has livedCollection: Motivation
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.Collection: Happiness
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.Collection: Light
There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.Collection: Happiness
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.Collection: Blindness
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.Collection: Life
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.Collection: Life
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.Collection: Love
I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.Collection: Sleep
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?Collection: Aids
The forests have taught man liberty.Collection: Men
Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.Collection: Giving Up
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.Collection: Idols
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.Collection: Art