This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.