"Now Ziegler felt deeply horrified, for ever since he swallowed the magic pill, he had understood the language of animals."

"Transformational Positivity, he says, is the future of organizational change. Optimism can and must become a permanent state of mind."

"The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it ..."

"What poem is this of spring, so often repeated ! I am thrilled when I hear it spoken of..."

"The older I grow, the more of an alien I find myself in the world; I cannot get used to it, cannot believe that it is real."

"Can it be possible that I am as real as any one else, and that all of us feel ourselves like ghosts and goblins in this authentic world ?"

"Oh, how he yearned to feel the vibration between himself and everything in the world !"

"Old age is a stage in our lives, ... it has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and needs."

"Stone on the path, you are stronger than me ! Tree in the meadow, you will outlast me, and perhaps so will you, little raspberry bush..."

"I offer this book to you not as a lorgnette to observe others but as a mirror to observe yourself."

"If I could, I would choose every day another form, plant or animal, I would be all flowers one by one: weed, thistle, or rose..."

"One wishes for laziness in wicked men and silence in fools."

"— I realized this morning the prodigious effect of climate on one’s state of mind ..."

"Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior."

"Oh, dear friend, what a small amount of joy is mine and what a lot of my own smoke I have to consume !"

"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."

"When we are depressed we may say we are dispirited; we have lost the energy for the journey..."

“Success, peace, happiness, and distraction — pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.”

"Reading can easily be nothing more than a way to kill time; but if it is calculated and intense, it is a steady extension of one's life."

"Anxiety is inescapable, anxiety is a part of all our lives. Anxiety is the source of all creativity."

"I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is ?" Vincent van Gogh

"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."

"What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."