Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too.
What I mean is- find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don’t forget to eventually share your heart with someone.
If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be – by definition – faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch.
Of course you are. I’m sorry for many of the things I’ve done, too. Everyone is sorry. It’s good to be sorry – but don’t make a fetish of it.
All human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another’s failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.
The man is a perfect dragon for protocol.
The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn – a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas.
If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.
Look for God like a man on fire looks for water.
She was not afraid of death, in theory. If anything, she had nothing but respect and reverence for the Genius of Death, who had shaped this world more than any other force. That said, she did not wish to die quite this moment. She still wanted to see what would happen next, as much as ever. The thing was to resist submersion for as long as possible.
Over time, I’ve found the right tone of voice for these assertions, too. It’s best to be insistent, but affable. Repeat yourself, but don’t get shrill. Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own.
The thing about fashion, my dears, is that you don’t need to follow it, no matter what they say. No fashion trend is compulsory, remember – and if you dress too much in the style of the moment, it makes you look like a nervous person. Paris is all well and good, but we can’t just follow Paris for the sake of Paris, now can we?
Ever since I’d met Edna Parker Watson, I tried to wear suits whenever possible. Among other lessons, that woman had taught me that a suit will always make you look more chic and important than a dress. And not too much jewelry! “A majority of the time,” Edna said, “jewelry is an attempt to cover up a badly chosen or ill-fitting garment.
You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That’s the divine contract of a little something we call free will.
The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don’t bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing – Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don’t agitate my home. There’s room for all of us in this neighborhood.
Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And.
Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it’s a gift. It’s the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. It’s as if all our gods and angels gathered together and said, “It’s tough down there as a human being, we know. Here – have some delights.
I arrived in New York City safely – a girl so freshly hatched that there was practically yolk in my hair.
Traveling is the great true love of my life... I have always felt that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love of travel.
Flexibility is just as essential for divinity as is discipline. Your job, then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help you move ever closer to divinity.