“ Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. ”

“ How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. ”

“ No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. ”

“ Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. ”

“ If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. ”

“ Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. ”

“ Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ”

“ Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. ”

“ You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. ”

“ The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ”

“ If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. ”

“ Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ”