As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.