The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.