most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Truly it is glorious, our being here.

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

All things want to float.

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.