True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere