Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. Beyond Good and Evil

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. The Prophet

this second, violent world gushed out fragrantly everywhere, except in our rooms, where Mother and Father were. And that was very good. It was wonderful that here among us there was peace, order, and repose, duty and a clear conscience, forgiveness and love—and wonderful that all the rest existed, all those noisy, glaring, somber, and violent things, which nevertheless could be escaped with a single bound toward one’s mother. Demian

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. Book VII