Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler.
Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.
The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.
When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more and more, that the child which first lay under her heart and later reposed upon her breast will be so near to her no more.
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.