Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. read more

• Thought Love Suffer Avoid Suffering Suffers from Loving Therefore Happy Makes Unhappy Too Much Happiness

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. read more

• Thought Far Better Alone Bad Company

The distance between two souls is love. read more

• Two Love Between Distance Souls

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them. read more

• Thought Sky Overcast Today Clouds Fervent Prayer God Enough Dispel Them

Every smile makes you a day younger. read more

• Thought Every Smile Makes Day Younger

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. read more

• Thought Greatest Gains Values Farthest from Appreciated Easily Come Doubt They Exist Soon Forget Them Highest Reality

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days. read more

• Thought Dry Hazy June Weather More Earth Farther from Heaven These Days

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder read more

• Thought Happiness Like Butterfly More Chase Elude Turn Attention Things Come Sit Softly Shoulder

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? read more

• Thought Most Do for Friend Simply Wealth Bestow Knows Happy Loving Want Reward Friendship Divine

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend"s life also, in our own, to the world. read more

• Thought Death Friend Consider Fates Confidence Devolved Us Task Double Living Henceforth Fulfill Promise Our Life Also Own World