11 quotes found
“desires are not killed by fulfilling them”
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.”
“To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
“I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.”
“A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all t...”
“Pronto me di cuenta de que estas enseanzas podan ser un consuelo slo para los que las aceptaran literalmente y que creyeran ser la verdad. Si fueran, como para m, en parte bella literatura, parte s...”
“On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found a swarm of small, blue butterflies drinking the water. I only went that way on sunny days and ...”
“I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference that was only pierced wh...”
“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
“Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more ...”
“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier years of my life left me, was alien and lost to me. I suddenly saw how ...”
