A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
Where are we really going? Always home.
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
You are alone with everything you love.
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.