Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

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.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

Let the spark in you catch fire and burn into the air, so that it may light up the sky.

She scooted up tighter and kissed him, hearing the stomp and rhythm of lust pulse in her blood. A rhythm as primitive as time.

When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.