"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."

"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."

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

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

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

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

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.