Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.
Live dangerously.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
To live is to learn, and to learn is to live. Live. Learn.