“Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension...”

“Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.”

“Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”

“Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.”

“We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.”

“He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.”

“Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but its taboo in social intercourse.”

“People may make fun of me because Im wearing something odd, but its still good to be alive.”

“All the joysanimal and humanof a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.”

“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”

“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”

“The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”