Franz Kafka

I was ashamed of myself when I realized that life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face.

Perception • Reflection • Shame

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Beliefs • Happiness • Improvement

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Authenticity • Creativity • Motivational

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Age • Beauty • Perception

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Deception • Lies • Recognition

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Age • Beauty • Happiness

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Improvement • Relationships • Spirituality

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Discovery • Imagination • Inspiration

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Life • Marriage • Relationships

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Destiny • Fate • Providence

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Ethics • Integrity • Morality