philosophy

Follow your bliss

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

To really be free

To really be free, You need to be free in the mind.

Remember the past

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Right to consume happiness

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Ego

Ego is convinced that Love is dangerous.

Two hands working

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

The birds of worry

That the birds of worry and care fly above your head,This you cannot change;But that they build nests in your hair,This you can prevent.

Commit no mistakes

It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

A great fire in our soul

There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney and pass on their way. Now, you must tend that inward fire, wait patiently for the hour when somebody will come and sit down near it -- to stay there maybe?

Letters to Theo

To test a man's character

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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