Reality

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them

Beauty is not caused. It is

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality

To describe happiness is to diminish it

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God

A mother who is really a mother is never free

The love we give away is the only love we keep

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.