There Is No Birth Of Consciousness Without Pain

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.