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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.
Life
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Wisdom
The only journey is the one within.
Wisdom
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.
Life
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.
Wisdom
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love
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.
Love
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Life
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Wisdom
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Love
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Wisdom
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.
Success
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Love
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.
Wisdom
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Wisdom
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Wisdom
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Love
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Courage
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Life
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Wisdom
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Hope
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Wisdom
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Wisdom
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Wisdom
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