Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The greatest distance in this world is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I love you.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.