Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
• To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
• At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
• All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
• To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
• You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.