"Some cause happiness whereever they go; others whenever they go."

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die.  Seneca (Roman philosopher) 

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world

What is the best government? – That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best that mankind ever knew:  
Freedom and life are earned by those alone  
Who conquer them each day anew.

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing.
Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world?
What does this word mean?

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly sorrow and joy; they are the ones who sit along the wall and do not join in the dance. The knights of infinity are dancers and possess elevation. They make the movements upward, and fall down again; and this too is no mean pastime, nor ungraceful to behold. But whenever they fall down they are not able at once to assume the posture, they vacillate an instant, and this vacillation shows that after all they are strangers in the world. This is more or less strikingly evident in proportion to the art they possess, but even the most artistic knights cannot altogether conceal this vacillation. One need not look at them when they are up in the air, but only the instant they touch or have touched the ground–then one recognizes them. But to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian–that only the knight of faith can do–and this is the one and only prodigy.

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.