Echoes

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Marriage must constantly vanquish a monster that devours everything: the monster of habit.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

My enemy said to me, "Love your enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Through hardship to the stars.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Through endurance we conquer.

Love is like a fever; it comes and goes quite independently of the will.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.