“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.

One of the most incredible feelings is feeling at home through places, people, within yourself, and who you are.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

You can only do good if you feel good.

I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.