A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.

For adventure is not outside a man it is within.

Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

Dorian’s going to love this.”She glared. “I swear to God, you tell him, and I’ll” — what the hell could you threaten an alpha with?—“I’ll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him.

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.