Sublime

“Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but—” And I was struck by the graphic image: “But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.” And suddenly that tranquil cloud-world, that world so harmless and simple that one sees below on rising out of the clouds, took on in my ey

I sat quietly and watched them, feeling a warm, almost affectionate glow towards this large and distinguished Parisian who, among all his other preoccupations, could bother to make a lonely small boy feel he was wanted.

must support two or three caterpillars if I want to know the butterflies.

is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you’re ready to listen and if you’re ready to be challenged, there’s one thing that you can do, but no one can help you.

“Marcus, do you know what is the only way to know how much you love someone?” “No.” “By losing them.

Si vraiment l’homme qui aime une femme devient son esclave comme Pyrrhus ou son bourreau comme Néron. Si vraiment l’Afrique et ses solitudes et son ciel bleu répondent à l’enseignement du maître de géographie.

“If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity.