Poems List

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.