We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

The longest journey
Is the journey inwards.
Of him who has chosen his destiny,
Who has started upon his quest
For the source of his being.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.