Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...

Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

Where there is no truth there is no grace.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

family relationships have made me so ill!