He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most... →
Victor Hugo
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep... →
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored... →
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of... →
Johan Huizinga