It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
I’m really too young to go out into the world alone.
History of the world which is the world’s court of judgement.[Der Weltgeschichte, als dem Weltgerichte, ausübt.]
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
All voices, all goals, all yearnings, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life.
Your soul is the whole world.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
You have to hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world: this is something you are free to do and is in accord with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering that you might be able to avoid.[Du kannst dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist dir freigestellt und entspricht deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das du vermeiden könntest.]
You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
