be as you wish to seem

…and then a blank, blind, moist aquamarine blaze shivered and stared as if a spatter of sun and sea had got between your own eyelids.

Observe your behavior every hour and every minute of the day until you radiate purity.

Life is too short to waste it fulfilling others’ dreams.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay.