When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

To work is to live without dying.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.