In the course of that night I suddenly realized that there are many tiny windows between the body and the spirit. If they're open, emotions flow fre…

- Susanna Tamaro

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

- Susanna Tamaro

The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in si…

- Susanna Tamaro

Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machi…

- Susanna Tamaro

Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the …

- Susanna Tamaro

You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy what an electri…

- Susanna Tamaro

Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.

- Susanna Tamaro

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

- Susanna Tamaro

In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agre…

- Susanna Tamaro