Born on July 26th

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

"There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum."

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."

"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."