I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
