Quotes to inspire and reflect

This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

I am in the prime of senility.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Let him think I am more man that I am and I will be so.

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves. J.

Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.