A Perspective

"If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is uncertainty."

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. "

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

"At last I have what I wanted. Am I happy? Not really. But what's missing? My soul no longer had that piquant activity conferred by desire. . . . Oh, we shouldn't delude ourselves--pleasure isn't in the fulfillment, but in the pursuit."

"Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. "

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."