Emotions and Feelings

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

It is easy for the one who stands outside The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one Who suffers.

Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.

The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

The block of granite which was an obstacle on the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone on the pathway of the strong.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

There are only two forces that unite men—fear and interest.

our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Fear and dull disposition, lukewarmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of moderation.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Marriage is a great institution—but I’m not ready for an institution.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.