The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.