Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

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

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

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.