Aphorisms To Live By

Aphorisms are succinct observations that contain a general truth. We love them because they say so elegantly ideas that we know in our heart must be true. Reading them makes us wish that we could be so eloquent ourselves.

Here are some of my favorites:

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Never love anyone who treats you like you are ordinary.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein

Don’t give up what you want most for what you want now.

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
-Mark Twain

If you can solve your problems, then what is the need of worrying. If you can’t solve your problems, then what is the use of worrying.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid.
-Albert Einstein

If you have everything, but don’t have love, you have nothing. If you have nothing, but you do have love, you have everything.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
-Oscar Wilde

Love me when I least deserve it, for that is when I really need it.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
-Mark Twain

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
-Matthew

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man dies. But not every man truly lives.
-William Wallace

I prefer not to think of all the misery but of all the beauty that still remains.
-Anne Frank

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