There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.