Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Certain signs precede certain events.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.