Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

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

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.