Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.