W. B. Yeats

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing or that, but simple growth. We are happy when we are growing.

W. B. Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.

W. B. Yeats

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

W. B. Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire.

W. B. Yeats

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

W. B. Yeats

Hammer your thoughts into unity.

W. B. Yeats

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

W. B. Yeats

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

W. B. Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility.

W. B. Yeats

It seems to me that love, if fine, is essentially a discipline.

W. B. Yeats