That man is not yet a finished creation but rather a challenge of the spirit; a distant possibility dreaded as much as it is desired; that the way towards it has only been covered for a short distance...
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to k...
That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It wait...
Sus dolores no serán pocos, ya que su corazón es orgulloso y duro, y esas personas tienen que sufrir mucho, equivocarse infinidad de veces, cometer innumerables injusticias, pecar una y otra vez.
Suddenly he thought he saw a trait of soul-less habit in her dear coarse face, something mechanical and unmysterious in her friendly smile, something unworthy of him. His gesture froze in mid-air; the...
Siempre ha sido así y siempre será igual, que el tiempo y el mundo, el dinero y el poder, pertenecen a los mediocres y superficiales, y a los otros, a los verdaderos hombres, no les pertenece nada. Na...
Siddhartha îşi dărui vestmântul unui brahman sărac de pe stradă. Nu mai avea pe el decât o bucată de pânză în jurul şoldurilor şi o pelerină dintr o bucată de stofă pământie. Nu mânca decât o dată pe...
Si había sido posible que esta pequeña melodía celestial echara misteriosamente raíces en mi alma y un día dentro de mí hiciera brotar su encantadora flor con todos los bellos matices, ¿podía estar yo...
She taught him, that lovers must not part from one another after celebrating love, without one admiring the other, without being just as defeated as they have been victorious, so that with none of the...
Searching means: having a goal. Butfinding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerableone, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, thereare many things you...
Quoth Siddhartha: What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?
Quite a number of people are able to feel the beauty of the world profoundly and vastly, and to carry high, noble images in their souls, but they are unable to exteriorize these images, to create them...
Pripremi se na borbu, Josefe Knechte, već vidim da je počela.
Podemos comprendernos unos a otros, pero sólo a sí mismo puede interpretarse cada uno.
Pero esas casualidades no existen. Cuando alguien necesita algo con mucha urgencia y lo encuentra, no es la casualidad la que se lo proporciona, sino él mismo. El propio desea y la propia necesidad co...
People like best what is hard for them to obtain.
Para el hombre despierto no habría más que un deber: buscarse a sí mismo, afirmarse en sí mismo y tantear, hacia delante siempre, su propio camino, sin cuidarse del fin al que puede conducirle.
Pablo had left on me the impression of a pretty nonentity, a little beau, and somewhat empty at that, as happy as a child for whom there are no problems, whose joy is to dribble into his toy trumpet a...
Our leaders strain every nerve and with success, to get the next war going, while the rest of us, meanwhile, dance the fox trot, earn money and eat chocolates...And perhaps...it has always been the sa...
Our days are precious but we gladly see them goingIf in their place we find a thing more precious growing:A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting;A child whom we are teaching, a booklet...