If you want to learn anything, learn trust: nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help: learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help: learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land. Whenever men have thought seriously of life, they have dreamed of a promised land, and so in a sense we are all moving toward some promised land.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
Life was to these a dream fulfilled,
And death a starry night.
Life is not a holiday. Should you approach it thus, you will find holidays aplenty.
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
Chocolate and brandy
Chocolate and calvados
Chocolate and whiskey
Chocolate and anything resembling alcohol
All make a good soldier's breakfast.
In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.