Aphorisms

Orient your criticism towards the future, even if it deals with the past.

Embrace the pain to conceive the joy. They belong to each other – the joy, and the pain. If you lock the door against the pain, the joy, too, will no longer come to you.

Time is the one element affecting everything really everything. 09.11.2002

Beauty exists to set the gaze of mankind on the Good.

The greatest gift of life is to know what one is living for. Gifts one can earn. Sometimes one must seek them, pray for them day by day, imagine their entirety. But the real gifts of life are given unexpectedly and unearned. It is there, … read more