I’m in love with hope.
Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.
The manager once called me the ‘best freak’ in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Secrets tear you apart.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That’s better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.
You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.
When you’re in bed, you’re dead.
Things change when you’re not in danger anymore.
Something is always happening somewhere.
Life goes quickly, doesn’t it?
You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
No one gets left behind, remember?
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be.
Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
If God wants it, it will happen.
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.