Franz Kafka was a German-speaking, Jewish novelist and short-story writer who was born on this day, July 3 in the year 1883. He died in 1924 at a young age of 40.
Here are some of his quotes to inspire us today.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Love is a drama of contradictions.
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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