To work is to live without dying.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

In the depths all becomes law.

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.