"To like things like, whatever one may..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.”

“There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.”

“Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.”

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

“You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.”

“I have my books and my poetry to protect me”

“You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”