We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.