You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
poetry
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
reading writing
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
dreams difficulties success achievement sacrifice
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
writing
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
madness
The breath of the mind is attention 128
attention breath
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
kindness people
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
people
When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.
wishes people
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
thetimes time
God has commanded time to console the afflicted.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
family
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
marriage man
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
order
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
manners grace moderation beauty
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