Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Enjoy your youth. You’ll never be younger than you are at this very moment.
You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.