Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.