He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.