I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

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 you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

You never lose Friends.Real ones will always stay - no matter whatand the fakes, you don't need anyways.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.

Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or not.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

I'm about my characters.

The return makes one love the farewell.

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.