1. “He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
2. “We do not remember days we remember moments.”
3. “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
4. “There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.”
5. “Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
6. “All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.”
7. “The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one’s own solitude, how to communicate with others.”
8. “Lesson are not given, they are taken.”
9. “One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.”
10. “Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.”
11. “The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”
12. “The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than anyone else’s.”
13. “Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
14. “Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”
15. “The only joy in the world is to begin.”
