To be here is immense..

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young..

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through y….

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out..

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing i….

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn….

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us….

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties….

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people..

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know..

All professions are... filled with demands..

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I ….

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones..

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive..

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love..

Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yiel….

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation..

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great….

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one..

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

I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there th….