I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Keep your opinion to yourself unless it’s asked for.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means

Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.

You do not necessarily lose concentration

Everything changes when you change.

Believe in, and follow your dreams.

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?