When I struck, I thought I was hitting a strong man capable of defending himself - but it was a quiet, suffering man, unarmed, who surrendered in silence.
What you could learn from me, you child, you have learned. Oh no, cried Goldmund, we didn’t become friends to end it now! What sort of friendship would that be, that reached its goal after a short dis...
What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rat...
What is meditative absorption? What is leaving the body? What is fasting? What is holding the breath? These are a flight from the ego, a brief escape from the torment of being an ego, a short-term dea...
Well, he said with equanimity, you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music. I never talk about music. What reply, then, was I to make to your very able and just remarks? You...
We who bore the mark, felt no anxiety about the shape the future was to take. All of these faiths and teachings seemed to us already dead and useless. The only duty and destiny we acknowledged was tha...
We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear....
We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret himself.
Viele sagen, sie lieben die Natur. Das heißt, sie sind nicht abgeneigt, je und je ihre dargebotenen Reize sich gefallen zu lassen.Sie gehen hinaus und freuen sich über die Schönheit der Erde, zertrete...
Vedea cum trăiesc oamenii de pe o zi pe alta într-un chip copilăresc, sau animalic, într-un chip care îi era drag, dar pe care îl și disprețuia în același timp. Îi vedea cum se zbat, cum suferă și cum...
Uno siempre puede volver a ser inocente si, en lugar de buscar la culpa en los demás, reconoce su dolor y su culpa y los lleva hasta el final.
Und auch das unglücklichste Leben hat seine Sonnenstunden und seine kleinen Glücksblumen zwischen dem Sand und Gestein. So war es denn auch bei dem Steppenwolf. Er war meistens sehr unglücklich, das i...
Una volta gli chiese: Hai appreso anche tu quel segreto del fiume: che il tempo non esiste?Un chiaro sorriso si diffuse sul volto di Vasudeva. Si, Siddharta rispose Ma è questo ciò che tu vuoi dire: c...
Una vaga desilusión fue debilitando y esfumando mis sentimientos y mis alegrías habituales; el jardín no tenía perfume, el bosque no me atraía, el mundo se extendía alrededor de mí como un saldo de tr...
Un veggente e un cieco: così camminavano a fianco; e se il cieco ignorava la sua cecità, il sollievo era solo suo.
U životu ne postoji nikakva dužnostosim dužnosti: biti srećan.Samo smo zato na svetu,a sa svim dužnostima,svim moralomi svim zapovedimaretko činimo jedno drugoga srećnim,jer i sebe time ne činimo sreć...
Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to Kamala, three noble and invincible arts: fasting, waiting and thinking.
Trebao bi se ponositi bolom - svaki bol nas podseca na nas visoki polozaj'. Divno! Osamdeset godina pre Nicea! Ali to nije izreka na koju sam mislio - cekajte, evo je. Dakle: 'Vecina ljudi nece da pli...
Todo lo demás eran medianías, un intento de evasión, de buscar refugio en el ideal de la masa; era amoldarse; era miedo ante la propia individualidad.