Wisdom

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Two excesses: exclude reason, admit only reason.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.