Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
All things want to float.
To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
Just keep going – no feeling is final.
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.
Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.
Look, we don’t love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
To be here is immense.
The artist’s experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.
I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.
As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.