Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.
No man is an island,′ said John Donne. I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music – then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
Woman must come of age by herself – she must find her true center alone.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.
There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.