Fernando Pessoa

I know nothing and my heart aches.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.