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Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
The longer you live, the better you get.
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
Chronicles
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.
The Days of Abandonment
Power and machinery, money and goods are useful only as they set us free to live.
1923. My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
You�ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays