Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

- Fernando Pessoa

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.

- 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.

- Fernando Pessoa

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

- Fernando Pessoa

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

- Fernando Pessoa

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

- Fernando Pessoa

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

- Fernando Pessoa

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

- Fernando Pessoa

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

- Fernando Pessoa