The best things in life aren't things.

The best thing in life aren't things.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.

the best things in life aren't things

Happiness is not a thing that can be possessed.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.

The will is not free to strive toward whatever is declared good.

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.