Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.