What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been.
God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.
When everyone drowns and I’m the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I’m the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don’t decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That’s the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
Reach what you cannot.
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
You can knock on a deaf man’s door forever.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven’t the time to write, and all those who have the time don’t live them! D’you see?
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
It doesn’t matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat.
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
The canary is like a man’s soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
By believing passionately in that which doesn’t exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.