Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Endless possibilities is hidden inside the fog of life.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.