Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them.

The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

A true Latter–day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.