One Ought To Hold On To Ones Heart For If One Lets

"“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”"

"“Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.”"

"“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”"

"“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”"

"“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”"

"“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.”"