Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

The only journey is the one within.

The only journey is the one within.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.