Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

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.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

What people have to say is none of my business. They all have their own issues that make them say and do whatever they need to do.

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.