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I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You", that would suffice.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.


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