Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.