A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.

Eventually, after much dreaming, the dream no longer suffices. You have to physically be there.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.