96 til Infinity

“Always give people the benefit of the doubt, but if something feels off, trust your intuition. Everything and everyone is energy, so if you get a weird vibe or a sense that something isn’t working or won’t work, trust yourself.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

“And then there is the undying flame that demands for more, more, more. I am selfishly inclined towards the maximum: in love, beauty, and greatness.”

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: they convinced me that culture was the highest of values.”

“If it gets awkward, let it be awkward. That awkwardness is something they created. You don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay when you are not feeling okay so that they can feel better about themselves.”

“It is not enough to be intelligent; you must also have the right character.”

“Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.”