The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar WildeTemperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Oscar WildeProsperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.
Oscar WildeHow you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I canโt make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I canโt eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say itโs perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.
Oscar Wilde