It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.