If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness