Soul

“The soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

“Dig within yourself. Within lies the wellspring of good, and it can always flow again if you keep digging.”

“People look for retreats: in the country, by the sea, in the mountains. Yet you are free to retreat into yourself at any hour.”

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“What does your conscience say? You shall become the one you are.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“Nothing in the world, nor even beyond it, can possibly be conceived as good without limitation, except a good will.”

“You travel far and change countries, but you take yourself along everywhere.”

“People become sociable out of poverty of self.”

“A human being is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and whoever spends a life at it has not wasted their time.”

“Whoever lies to themselves ends up losing the ability to tell anything apart.”

“A person does not grow through happiness. They grow through what they have carried.”