For a young person it is almost a sin – and certainly a danger – to be too much occupied with himself; but for the ageing person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.
You also have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards![said Alice (she had grown to her full size by this time)]
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
The caresses over which love presides are always pure.[Les caresses auxquelles l’amour préside ne sont jamais lascives.]
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.[translation by John Willis Clark]He who sings scares away his woes.[/mqqi]translation by John Ormsby[/mqqi][Que quien canta, sus males espanta.]
Please take care of this pretty earth. Do it for the generations to come. And if you don’t like humans, do it for the animals.
Man’s greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
Live a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little.
It’s always the people who are so dreadfully careful who lose things.
It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.
I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.
