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Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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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 pov...more

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We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, thes...more

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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hal...more

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There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held ...more

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all ot...more

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Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of profound aloneness. It induces you to mature and becom...more

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If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not because it’s a dull world, that’s because you’re not...more

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And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your young existence! So great w...more

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I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. ...more

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For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of thei...more

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a...more

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If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as...more

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Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while ...more