Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.