“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.”

“As I see it, youre always unsteady on your legs. You cant find your courage. Youll go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There is n...”

“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I cant settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world wont let me. So what choice do I have but t...”

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

“Its so unrewarding, being a woman.”

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

“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.”

“If women patronize the wheel the number of buyers will be twice as large. If women ride they must, when riding, dress more rationally than they have been wont to do. If they do this many prejudices...”

“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.”