“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

Healing and the resentment cannot live in the same body. One must suffocate to let the other survive.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

There’s more to life than cheek bones.