Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.

I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.

The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they’re gone, and maybe it’s that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you’re near enough.

My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Stubborn, snarly male.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

We're all idealistic when young.