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

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

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.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

What batters you becomes your strength.