Meaning

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being hated, and that is being loved for what you are not.”

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.”

“Know thyself.”

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“You cannot unscramble an egg.”

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“The cut worm forgives the plow.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.”

“We live, as we dream—alone.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.”