Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

Let everything you do be done in love.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.