“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.”

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

To live is to be slowly born.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you’ll ever be again.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Somewhere along the way I started saying Happy Birthday to everyone else.