If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.