What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet