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“Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”

“Why seek at all for a purpose?
If you seek this you will never find it because it is eternally hidden in the seeker.”

“We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.”

“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.”

“The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

“Appear as you are, be as you appear.”

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”

“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.”

“Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.”

“Unless I am myself, I am nobody.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

“Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.”

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”