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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Don’t forget to love yourself.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.