The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it, for most people experience their dreams more intensely than their lives.
The drunkard does indeed find escape, he does indeed find short respite and rest, but he returns from the illusion and finds everything as it was before. He has not grown wiser, he has not gained know...
The air and earth had lived in response to his dreams and desires. … [E]ven today … this world belonged to him as much as to any owners of these houses and gardens.
That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just...
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...
Svijet je lijep, kada se posmatra bez želje za traganjem, jednostavno i kao dijete.
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...
Sería absurdo decir que soy un sabio. Simplemente creo ser un hombre que ha buscado y que sigue en la búsqueda de respuestas; la diferencia es que ya no las busco en el estrellado cielo o en las págin...
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...
Rothfuss thought about his eccentric friend who wanted nothing of life but to look on, and ... could not have said if this was asking too much or too little.
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...
Quien sabía vivir de esta manera el momento, quien vivía de este modo tan actual y sabía estimar tan cuidadosa y amablemente toda flor pequeña del camino, todo minúsculo valor sin importancia del inst...