44 quotes
Swiss writer (1914-2012)
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.”
"Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free."
on Love
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
on Resilience
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision."
"La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien."
on Happiness
"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges."
on Friendship
"Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend."
on Fear
"I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower."
"True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work."
on Faith
"The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision."
on Wisdom
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."
"You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete."
on Courage
"Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings."
on Philosophy
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his."
on History
"I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God."
"Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content."
on Life
"Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while."