...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others