If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Becau…

There is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer a…

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not…

He can never come to believe that anyone will ever help him out, ever. If he once thinks there's an easy way out, he's wrecked.

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must h…

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as h…