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"The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands."
"Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living."
"The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance."
"If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us."
"What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality."
"Do not hurry; do not rest."
"How circumscribed is woman's destiny!"
"Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy."
"What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth."
"We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable."
"It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."
"Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do."
"Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]"
"I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate."
"Man's restlessness makes him strive."
"Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them."
"Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson."
"The world is full of contradiction."
"Miracle is the pet child of faith."
"To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone."