Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure,…

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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts...

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the...

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the...

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes...

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes...

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me...

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me...

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy...

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy...

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may...

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of...

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of...

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness...

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness...

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things -- there are so many of them.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things -- there are so many of them.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us...

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us...

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and...

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and...

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we...

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may...

Fortune favors the audacious

Fortune favors the audacious

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin...

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated