For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

I like things simple.