Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness