Day by day
- Day 012On living against the grain of sense“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
- Day 011On what was already given“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
- Day 010On the harder of the two knowledges“Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
- Day 009On living the questions“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
- Day 008On the life frittered away by detail“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
- Day 007On the room kept at the back“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
- Day 006On the hours that were never short“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”
- Day 005On the opinion laid over the thing“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
- Day 004On staying where your feet are“Confine yourself to the present.”
- Day 003On the river that will not wait“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”