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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm gonna smile cause I deserve toQuickly I'm learning to love againAll I know is I'mma be ok

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.