“The wise man uses his mind like a mirror: it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.”
“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”
“Once I, Zhuang Zhou, dreamed I was a butterfly... now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
“The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma has no homestead on earth.”
“Health alone does not suffice; to be happy man must be strengthened by faith in meaning.”
“The heart is able to bury deep and well what it urgently desires to forget.”
“A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere.”
“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children.”
“In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.”
“One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.”
“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point in one's own existence.”
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment.”
“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”
“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst.”
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy who loves you.”
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are.”
“I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race.”
“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
“Even death has a heart.”