#philosophy

"If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal."

"Who is Fortunate? [10w] Who is fortunate?He who measures his fortune in friends."

"Renewal Cream [10w] The features of the human face are enriched by poetry."

"Stop complaining. Plot your course and start your journey. Adjust your sail. Success is waiting to welcome you."

"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."

"Time [10w] {Couplet} Can there be more callous crimethan unkindly killing time?"

"When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly."

"Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

"Love without reason; forgive without judging."

"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details."

"Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace."

"The Wonder of Wandering [10w] When you wander without destination,the world becomes your teacher."

"Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I"was the converse of the imperial "We."

"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back."

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy."

"I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think."

"Life loses its meaning when you forget your purpose."