When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

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.

How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

Where there's love, gossip won't strive or thrive.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Your god is too small for my universe.

Man is a moral being.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.