The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

We must declare ourselves become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly we should die.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.