Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
Man lives by imagination.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
. . . aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
Art is the great stimulus to life.
I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys