All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. |
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. |
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. |
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. |
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. |
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. |
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. |
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. |
Truly to sing, that is a different breath. |
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. |
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. |
The only journey is the one within. |
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. |
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. |
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. |
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. |
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. |
There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. |
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. |
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. |