Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love those you hate you.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, andtherefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.