If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.