Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
You can pick all of the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.
But anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well, I have—for the Fourth Month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
Self-knowledge is always bad news.
You climb the ladder just to realize it was against the wrong wall.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis is not too late to seek a newer world.
The thief left it behind
the moon
at my window.
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for. You say nothing is created anew, don’t worry about it, with the mud of the Earth, make a cup from which your brother can drink.
There is one simple thing wrong with you--you think you have plenty of time. You think your life is going to last forever.
Overcome all bitterness because you are not up to the magnitude of pain that was entrusted to you.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
Don’t trust means or techniques, some people work and become wealthy, others do the same and remain poor. Marriage fills one with energy, another it drains. Don’t trust means, they change. A means flails about like a donkeys tail. Always add the gratitude clause to any sentence. If God wills, then go and do your best.
Be humble, for you are made of mud. Be noble, for you are made of stars.
Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
Start your work from where you live, with the small concrete needs right around you. Help ease tension in your workplace. Help feed the person right in front of you. Personalism holds that we each have a deep personal obligation to live simply, to look after the needs of our brothers and sisters, and to share in the happiness and misery they are suffering.