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To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet ...

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ...

Guard against idols
yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?