To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

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.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

A mí me ha tocado no estar contigo

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

Secrets always come up for air. They're never content to stay buried for long.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.