Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.

We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.