The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.rn

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.