Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.