Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.