Manusia diciptakan untuk saling mencintai: mungkin itu yang paling sulit dari semua tugas kita, yang terakhir, ujian dan bukti terakhir, pekerjaan yang semua pekerjaan lainnya hanyalah persiapan.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.