I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

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.

Every experience makes us wiser.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.