Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
The only journey is the one within.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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