Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

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.

My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.