There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.