“I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.” BelieveMomentsHappinessDesireI BelieveAbilityDestinyDemandCeasePermanent Author:Madame de Stael
“I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.” BelieveHumansSaidStillsStatesCoursesDealsOughtEssenceConvictionExtremesCeaseHuman SocietyAristocratic Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.” IfsWorldBelieveHeartChildrenFormDiesGrowsBornThis WorldLessonsEternityCeaseCreeds Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveSelfRealityPainSufferingI BelieveKnow HowComfortEndureCeaseComfort And Happiness Author:Ursula K. Le Guin